Thuringia
Die Hexenverfolgung im ausgehenden Mittelalter steht im Mittelpunkt einer Sonderausstellung, die im südthüringischen Schmalkalden eröffnet wurde. Unter dem Motto "Luther und die Hexen" wird die Haltung des Reformators zum Hexenwahn dokumentiert.
Two new paths along biographical stations of the Reformer Martin Luther have been opened in Thuringia.
The states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia in Central Germany will increase their co-operation for the preparations of the Reformation anniversary in 2017.
During the most important meeting of the Schmalkaldic League from February 7th until 26th, 1537, Martin Luther lived here as guest of the Hessian bursar Balthasar Wilhelm.
From May 4th, 1521 until March 1st, 1522, Martin Luther lived there in a quaint cell that can be visited today as "Luther's Room".
The Thuringian city played a vital role several times in German history. To its historical heritage belong the Weimar Classicism as well as the Bauhaus and the foundation of the Weimar Republic in 1919.
The sovereign, Philip of Hessia, recognised the Reformation of the church and the faith by Martin Luther not only as a transformative event in the empire, but understood the eminence of these changes for the whole of Europe.
The Reformer Martin Luther stayed in Neustadt an der Orla several times. He was the prior of the Augustine eremites' monastery and preached in the city church of St. John.
The radical reformer Thomas Müntzer preached in Mühlhausen's St. Mary's church and placed the city in the centre of German history during the times of the Peasant Wars.
