Bad Bergzabern is a spa town in the Palatinate, at the southern end of the German Wine Route, and its Haus des Gastes is the building such places keep for their visitors: information desk, reading room, and a hall for lectures, dances and concerts. Programmes there follow the rhythm of the resort's calendar rather than a concert season, and the audience is as often made up of guests taking the waters as of local subscribers. Alongside visiting performers, the venue serves local associations, presenting theatre, readings, lectures and concerts within the cultural programme of the Southern Wine Route region.