Kloster Walberberg

Kloster Walberberg is a monastery complex in Bornheim set on a hillside, featuring a church, conference rooms, and buildings that display its religious heritage. Today the site also includes hotel facilities and functions as a contemporary event center.

The site was originally a medieval castle before becoming St. Albert Dominican Monastery in 1924 and serving as a Dominican philosophical university until 1975. After major war damage, it was rebuilt through 1952.

The place is named after Saint Walbert and was long a center where Dominican scholars studied and taught. Visitors can still sense this religious and intellectual past in the buildings and spaces today.

The former monastery complex now operates as a hotel with event spaces and provides parking facilities. Public transportation easily reaches the hilltop location.

The monastery once held an impressive library of around 160,000 volumes that attracted Dominican scholars from many countries. This book collection was a treasure of learning and made the place a hub of knowledge sharing.