Networking meets Middle Ages - Schwarzrheindorf Double Church and Lede Castle

Date

Sunday, 15 June 2025

Time

10:30 - 17:00

Online event

Bonn

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Just a few kilometers from the Sankt Augustin campus, you can discover two remarkable medieval monuments: the Scharzrheindorf double church and the small castle "Burg Lede"in Bonn-Vilich. We visit the double church, which impresses with its large, colorful biblical paintings on the inside and the typical colors of the time on the outside. At Burg Lede with its large natural park, we enjoy a cheerful medieval family festival with jugglers and traders, music and show fights. The event also serves as a networking opportunity for international alumni and students.

Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf. Foto: Erzbistum Köln, Dieter Axler

Schwarzrheindorf Double Church. Picture: Archdiocese of Cologne | Dieter Axler

If you look north across the Rhine from the riverbank in Bonn, you will see the striking spire of the Catholic church of St. Maria and St. Clemens on the other side not far from the Rhine. Not that big, almost a thousand years old - and quite colorful, this is one of the most important Romanesque churches in Germany. The paintings on the vaulted ceilings inside the church are impressive with prophetic biblical murals.

On this privat event for international alumni and students of the H-BRS, we take a closer look at this architectonical jewel.

Last day of an Alumni Conference in 2015 at Burg Lede. Picture: H-BRS | Eva Tritschler

After the church tour, we walk approx. 1.5 km along the renaturalized Vilich Creek to Lede Castle in Vilich. Use this time to get in contact. The alumni officer will help alumni and students get to know each other and network. They have many topics in common: Living, studying and working in Germany, experiences with job searching and careers.

We enter the grounds of Lede Castle together at around 12 noon. A medieval family festival is taking place there, organized by many local volunteers. We can expect medieval craftsmanship and fighting displays, jugglers, musicians and traditional delicacies. (See the program here - event page in German).

At the festival itself, participants organize their time as they wish and leave the castle grounds whenever they want.

Innenraum der Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf

Kindly note

The trip is a private event. There is no insurance cover from the university.

Registration: Please register for this event until June 12. This makes it easier for us to organize.

Time and place: Dixstraße 41, 53225 Bonn.

Church tour: 10:30 am at the fountain in front of the church (south side).
Networking walk to "Burg Lede": 11:15 am at the fountain in front of the church.
Attendance at the Catholic church service: You are welcome to attend the Catholic service in the double church from 9.30 am to 10.30 am (in German). Please be on time. The liturgical texts of the day are available in English as a handout. If you would like to sit directly under the vault during the service, you should be there at around 9.20 am. Once the service has started, please do not walk around and do not disturb the service by talking or using your mobile phone. Thank you very much.

Getting to the double church by public transport: For example, take bus no. 640 from Bonn main station via Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz to Schwarzrheindorf Schule. From there it is a 5-minute walk to the church

Departure from Burg Lede: approx. 10 minutes on foot to the “Vilich” stop on tram line 66

Please register until June 12