Luther & the Reformation Tour
Let us organise a bespoke tour for your groups, taking in all the key Luther sites in Germany.
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.

Photo credits:
Slideshow: Lutherstadt Wittenberg with market square, town hall, Melanchthon and Luther monuments; the room where Luther died, Lutherstadt Eisleben; Berlin Cathedral © Anthony Reungere
Photo to the right of the tour: Wartburg Castle; Luther statue, Worms.