Seminars and company events
Kloster Eberbach hosts meetings from a dozen people up to conferences of 1,400, along with company celebrations, dinners and weddings. The former abbey stands in the Kisselbach valley above Eltville am Rhein, in the Rheingau wine region west of Wiesbaden.
The event team sorts its rooms into three sizes: small rooms for up to 12 people, medium rooms for up to 50 and large rooms for up to 1,400. Strategy workshops and board meetings can use the Barocketage, a floor built in the early 18th century above the lay brothers' dormitory. It covers more than 1,000 square meters and holds several meeting rooms. One of them, the Abt Arnold room, is set with a large conference table, modern lighting and presentation equipment. Larger formats move into the medieval halls, where talks, award evenings and company anniversaries take place under Gothic vaults. The gardens take festivals and outdoor events, with or without a tent. A dedicated team of event managers follows each booking.
Weddings and receptions
Couples can hold a civil ceremony on site, for instance in the Rheingausalon, a room that once served as the abbot's residence. A church ceremony can take place in the basilica, and a free ceremony outdoors in the grounds. The celebration then continues in one of the wine cellars or in the Brauhaus.
Rooms and capacities
The Laiendormitorium, the long vaulted dormitory of the lay brothers, can be laid out with a stage and rows of chairs for a seminar, with banquet tables for a dinner, or with lounge furniture and a dance floor for a party. The Mönchsrefektorium, the monks' former dining hall, has wood paneling and a decorated ceiling. The basilica belongs to the largest category, listed for up to 1,400 guests. The website does not publish a capacity for each individual room, so the team confirms figures for each layout.
Accommodation
Hotel Kloster Eberbach sits beside the Prälatengarten, in a former mill and barn that became a guest house in the 16th century. It has 22 double rooms. Five Superior rooms and one Deluxe room are in the Klosterschänke, about 100 meters away, and a holiday house, the Alte Schule, sleeps up to six people in three bedrooms. That gives 28 hotel rooms on site, enough for a small residential seminar.
Catering
The Klosterschänke restaurant serves straightforward regional dishes. The abbey also runs its own wine estate, Weingut Kloster Eberbach, with a wine shop and a wine bar on site, so a tasting can be built into the program.
History and setting
Founded by Cistercian monks in 1136, the abbey is a protected cultural monument of the Rheingau, with a basilica, a cloister and facades framed in red sandstone. The estate still makes wine under the abbey's name.
Getting there
From Eltville station, bus line 172 runs hourly to the Kloster Eberbach stop. By car, the A66 leads from Wiesbaden toward the Rheingau and becomes the B42; leave at the Kiedrich exit and follow the brown signs. Frankfurt Airport connects via the A5, A3 and A66. Guests park in the P-Ost, P-West or Großer Klosterhof lots, and hotel guests use the Schmidtgarten. Parking is limited during large public events, so a coach or shuttle helps for big groups. Coaches park in P-West.
