From May 2016 to the late 2018 the Medieval Crime Museum is mounting a major exhibition on the history of people's belief in and persecution of witches - from the early days to the end of the great witch hunts.

The Ansbach chancellor Georg Vogler left the town of Rothenburg an extensive collection of pamphlets from the time of the Reformation when he died in 1550.

The Reformation influenced nearly every area of life, not only in Germany but in other parts of Europe as well. It has also left lasting marks in art. On the occasion of the Reformation anniversary, the Grassi Museum of Applied Ar ...

Without the medium of the leaflet, Martin Luther's reformatory ideas would never have achieved the resonance required to make him one of the most important protagonists of the modern era. In the 16th century the leaflet was a mass ...

Exhibition in the Museum der bildenden Künste with works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son, Lucas Cranach the Younger, who are among the most important artists of the Reformation period and the German Renaissance.

Lucas Crana ...

What was only a ruin after World War II rose anew between 1993 and 2005 thanks to donations from all over the world. Today, as in old times, it represents the perfection of church construction according to Luther’s ideals. After i ...

With its almost 800-year history, St Thomas Boys Choir is the oldest cultural institution in Leipzig. Famous choirmasters such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Hermann Schein, Johannes Kuhnau and Johann Adam Hiller helped to make ...

During the Reformation, which ideas were carried from Wittenberg to Lübeck by Lübeck's merchants, the inner of  Lübeck's Old Town churches drastically changed: After 1530 the pictures and figures have been removed from the walls o ...

In Lusatia, the Sorbs have preserved their own culture until today. This Slavic minority profited from Luther’s demand for propagation of the Word of God in the corresponding mother tongue through the development of a proprietary ...

The introduction of the Reformation and the initially opposing positions of the Ernestines and Albertines forced Saxon nobility to pick a position in the question of faith, often with far-reaching consequences that even lead to wh ...