Wilhering Advent Days 2025

Wilhering Advent Market 2024 in Wilhering Abbey

Widely known for its enchanting ambience and unique music program, the traditional Wilhering Advent market will once again take place on 7 and 8 December 2025 at Wilhering Abbey.
Regional handicrafts and culinary delicacies are on offer in the courtyard in front of Wilhering Abbey Church. The Advent market is accompanied by concerts by the Schönering Music Association and pre-Christmas folk music by the group "Saitentreff". A visit from St. Nicholas will make children's eyes light up. The Wilhering Advent Days will conclude with the Kürnbergwald Demons, who will spread a mystical and mysterious atmosphere with their performance.
Program:
Sun., December 7
9.00 - 19.00 Exhibition by the Lipp family of artists in the north chapel of the collegiate church
Advent market in the Stiftshof
"Nativity scenes of the Dörnbach parish" - exhibition in the cloister of the monastery
7.00 / 8.30 / 10.00 a.m. Services in the collegiate church
11.15 a.m. Organ meditation with Michael Rexeis from Graz in the collegiate church
14.30 Atmospheric music by the ensemble "Saitentreff" in the Fritz-Fröhlich-Saal
3.30 pm Advent brass band - Schönering Music Society in the Stiftshof
4.30 pm "In dulci jubilo" - Advent concert with the Cantalentia mixed choir, wind ensemble and Christmas texts in the collegiate church
6.00 pm Visit from St. Nicholas in the Abbey courtyard
Monday, December 8th, Assumption Day
9.00 - 18.00 Exhibition by the Lipp family of artists in the north chapel of the collegiate church
Advent market in the Stiftshof
"Nativity scenes of the Dörnbach parish" - exhibition in the cloister of the monastery
7.00 / 8.30 a.m. Services in the collegiate church
10.00 a.m. Pontifical mass in the collegiate church
"Missa in honorem S. Adalberti op. 188" by Josef B. Foerster (1859-1951)
Performers: Wilheringer Stiftschor, Till Alexander Körber (conductor), Ikarus Kaiser (organ)
14.00 Church concert I - Schönering Music Society in the collegiate church
15.00 Advent blowing - Musikverein Dörnbach in the Stiftshof
16.30 Church Concert II - Schönering Music Society in the collegiate church
5.30 pm Visit from the Kürnbergwald demons in the Abbey courtyard
6.00 pm Vespers in Gregorian chant with organ accompaniment in the collegiate church