Foto: Stiftung Luther Gedenkstätten S.-A../Lutz DöringThe museum "Luther's place of death" at the Andreaskirchplatz in Eisleben Luther maintained a close connection to the County of Mansfeld until the end of his life and travelled to Eisleben several times. He visited the Monastery of St. Anne as the vicar of the district, founded a Latin school, and cautioned peasant insurgents.

The chronicler confused the house

He made his last journey in an attempt to reconcile the county’s rulers with one another. After they had signed a contract, Luther died on February 18, 1546; recent research confirms that it was in ‘the fourth grey-brown house, formerly belonging to Dr. Drachstedt, on the market place’. Today the hotel 'Graf von Mansfeld' is to be found there.

Museum temporarily closed

Since the eighteenth century, local tradition has held that Luther died in another house – owned by the son of Dr. Drachstedt. This is the reason that the Prussian state presumably bought the wrong house in 1863 – and then converted it into a memorial. The rooms mentioned in the reports of Luther's death provided the focal point of the presentation: the bedroom, the room where Luther died, and the consulting room. In 1894, they were provided with an appropriate ‘historical’ decor. Since 1994, all of the rooms have been dedicated to the work of the museum.