The monastery garden of the franciscans really is a very special place that conveys a peaceful and also hopeful atmosphere in the hecticness of todays world. The garden is only open in guided tours. This tours take place from May till Oktober. Guided tours (60 min.) in German can be attended every Thursday at 16 o'clock. Meeting point is at the Entrance of the Wax-museum, Klosterplatz 1, 93453 Neukirchen b. Hl. Blut. Groups can book guided tours in English in advance.

Further information in English:
Tourist-Information Neukirchen b. Hl. Blut, phone: 09947/940822.

The huge nave contains a absolutely beautiful altar made out of silver and gold between 1750 and 1752. Very special in this church is that the altar with the statue of the holy Mary serves in the back also as altar for the smaller church of the Franciscans. The bigger and the smaler churches are only separated by two wroughtiron gates.

Services:
Church of pilgrimage/Wallfahrtskirche
in winter: saturdays 16:00 h, in summer: saturdays 17:00 h, Sunday and special holidays 9:00 h und 10.30 h
Monastrery church/Klosterkirche
Sunday and special holiday 19:00 h, weekdays 08:00 h
Church St. Anna, Rittsteig (village 6 km from the centre)
Sunday and special holiday 09.00 h, tue and Fri 19:00 h
St. Josef und Vierzehnheiligen, Mais (village 3 km from the centre)
saturdays every two weeks: 19:00 h during summer,
17:00 h during winter
Jägershofer Chapel
(village 4 km from the centre)
mondays 16:00 h winter, 19:00 h summer
guided tours:
In July, August and September every Friday at 10.30 h;
or ask Thomas Schmatz,
organ player and sacristan, phone: 09947-2613.

The pilgrimage of Neukirchen b. Hl. Blut - legend
The Statue of the Holy Mary in Neukirchen beim Hl. Blut counts for centuries as one of the most important places of pilgrimage in Bavaria.
The legend is connected to Bohemia. The legend tells us that in 1420 a devotional countrywoman of a small village in Bohemia saved the statue of the holy Mary to Neukirchen b. Hl. Blut as in those days in Bohemia hussites were destroying all sorts of images and statues of saints. Some years later the hussites crossed the boarders to Bavaria and destroyed houses and set fire to villages. The legend says that one hussite saw the Statue of the holy Mary in some small chapel and intended to destroy it. When he put his sword onto the head of the Statue human blood flowed out of it. The hussite was so staggered by that that he became a believer.

The story of the hussite is painted at the balustrade of the organ in the beautiful baroque church. The statue of the holy Mary can be seen behind glass in the gold and silver-altar.