Luther & the Reformation Tour

Highlights

• Wittenberg to see Luther's house, the university where he worked and the church where he is buried beneath the pulpit.
• Melanchthon House, given to Philipp Melanchthon, the 'Teacher of Germany'.
• Eisenach and Luther's House, Wartburg Castle and Luther's Cell where he translated the Bible and St George's Church.
• Lutherstadt Eisleben and Luther's birthplace and where he died in 1546.
• Erfurt: the monastery where Luther studied, St Mary's Cathedral where he was ordained and the Luther Stone.
• Dessau, where he preached.
• Augsburg, where he refused to revoke his Theses and site of the Augsburg Confession. See priceless early Lutheran manuscripts, documents and paintings.
• Torgau, including the Castle, the Castle Church and St. Mary's Church, where Luther's wife Katharina von Bora is buried.
• Coburg Castle in beautiful Bavaria, where he took refuge.
• The 300 year old 'Francke Foundations', a centre of Lutheran Pietism that included an orphanage, school and Bible society and where Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, studied.
• Berlin: key sites such as the Reichstag, Berlin Gate, Topography of Terror, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Cathedral and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
• Buchenwald concentration camp, where Pastor Paul Schneider, the first Protestant minister to be matyred by the Nazis, was imprisoned. Also Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran minister who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler.