On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

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In Eisleben, Martin Luther was born, and here he died. So tranquil Central German town today as well, it is one of the most important haunts of the reformer, and as a UNESCO world heritage site.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Monument on the market square

    In the left Hand he holds a Bible in his right Hand a papal ban bull – Martin Luther located Eisleben, guests from all over the world on the square of Luther city. His native city erected the imposing monument in 1883, for 400. Birthday of their famous son.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Eisleben, once the centre of mining

    Eisleben, one of the oldest towns between the Harz mountains and the Elbe river, developed in the 15th century. and 16. Century by the mining of copper shale is the most important city in the once-powerful County of Mansfeld. Also Luther’s father came here, to earn in the mining of his money.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Luther’s Birth House

    In this house, Martin Luther was on 10. November 1483 born. The family lived a year and a half here, then she moved to nearby Mansfeld. Today, the house Museum. The permanent exhibition tells of the Childhood of the great reformer, from the mining in the Region and life in the middle ages.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Living room of the family, Luther

    Of the original equipment remained nothing. After 1689 had destroyed a town fire, the building was purchased by the city of Eisleben, the plot of land and established a poor school, which also served as a Luther memorial. Thus, Luther’s tourism began in Eisleben.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Baptistery

    Just a few steps from the birthplace, is the Petri-Church. Here Martin Luther was baptized the day after his birth. The then custom, he was given the names of the days of St. Martin.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    The Centre Of Baptism

    In the 500 years of its existence, the St. Peter’s Church has experienced many changes, also the baptismal font was rewritten several times. An inscription States that “these are the remains of the Font, in the spirit of Martin Luther in the year 1483, was baptized”. In the foreground: the new baptistery from the year 2012.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Portrait of the reformer, painted Similar to 1528 by Lucas Cranach the elder.

    As Martin Luther was in Wittenberg has long been a famous man, he came back again and again in his native town: He consecrated new churches and monasteries, introduced a priest into the office, took care of the structure of the education system, negotiated with the Mansfeld counts. Most recently, he joined in the Winter of 1546, the arduous journey to Eisleben, clearly of old age and illness.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Andrew’s Church

    Also the Andreas Church next to the market square is closely connected with Martin Luther: On 19. February 1546 was the laying out of the dead reformer, marriage, and the body was transferred to the castle Church to Wittenberg.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Luther pulpit

    The most important asset of the Andreas Church is the pulpit from which Martin Luther in 1546, preached his last four sermons. With the help of donations from the United States, the pulpit was renovated, and in Minneapolis issued. Just in time for the reformation anniversary in your face and takes you back to his usual place in the Andreas Church in Eisleben.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Death house

    At the Andreas Church square No. 7 is the house of the the world may believe that Martin Luther here on the 18th. February 1546 died. However, there is a likelihood of confusion, the actual death house the current Hotel “Graf von Mansfeld” in the marketplace. A bizarre story that goes far back:

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Replica of the death-bed

    After Luther’s death, the original death house quickly became a place of pilgrimage. But again and again Luther admirer of wood particles broke from the death-bed. To end this cult of relics, the Evangelical Church in 1707, the death-bed of Luther to burn and the house close. Later chroniclers mistook the exact place of death of the reformer.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Back to the supposed place of death

    The mistake was only discovered in the 1960-ies. However, since the Comrades of the SED-ruled on the original plot. The decided, the wrong death house more than the real spend. And so it has remained until today.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Dying room

    As always, Luther’s death house was renovated from 2010 to 2013, basic and advanced. Highlight of the exhibition is the dying room, a reconstruction from the 19th century. Century. The stylized coffin contains at least the original Bahrtuch, covered in 1546, Luther’s coffin.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    In the name of the (Luther’s)-Rose

    A Rose with heart and cross for Martin Luther, it was the Symbol of his faith. He used the Luther rose once as a seal for his letters, his native town sites has to be with you today on the way to the main effect of Luther in Eisleben. Can’t run in the peaceful town, pretty distinctive are signposts from all.

    Author: Kerstin Schmidt


  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Monument on the market square

    In the left Hand he holds a Bible in his right Hand a papal ban bull – Martin Luther located Eisleben, guests from all over the world on the square of Luther city. His native city erected the imposing monument in 1883, for 400. Birthday of their famous son.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Eisleben, once the centre of mining

    Eisleben, one of the oldest towns between the Harz mountains and the Elbe river, developed in the 15th century. and 16. Century by the mining of copper shale is the most important city in the once-powerful County of Mansfeld. Also Luther’s father came here, to earn in the mining of his money.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Luther’s Birth House

    In this house, Martin Luther was on 10. November 1483 born. The family lived a year and a half here, then she moved to nearby Mansfeld. Today, the house Museum. The permanent exhibition tells of the Childhood of the great reformer, from the mining in the Region and life in the middle ages.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Living room of the family, Luther

    Of the original equipment remained nothing. After 1689 had destroyed a town fire, the building was purchased by the city of Eisleben, the plot of land and established a poor school, which also served as a Luther memorial. Thus, Luther’s tourism began in Eisleben.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Baptistery

    Just a few steps from the birthplace, is the Petri-Church. Here Martin Luther was baptized the day after his birth. The then custom, he was given the names of the days of St. Martin.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    The Centre Of Baptism

    In the 500 years of its existence, the St. Peter’s Church has experienced many changes, also the baptismal font was rewritten several times. An inscription States that “these are the remains of the Font, in the spirit of Martin Luther in the year 1483, was baptized”. In the foreground: the new baptistery from the year 2012.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Portrait of the reformer, painted Similar to 1528 by Lucas Cranach the elder.

    As Martin Luther was in Wittenberg has long been a famous man, he came back again and again in his native town: He consecrated new churches and monasteries, introduced a priest into the office, took care of the structure of the education system, negotiated with the Mansfeld counts. Most recently, he joined in the Winter of 1546, the arduous journey to Eisleben, clearly of old age and illness.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Andrew’s Church

    Also the Andreas Church next to the market square is closely connected with Martin Luther: On 19. February 1546 was the laying out of the dead reformer, marriage, and the body was transferred to the castle Church to Wittenberg.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Luther pulpit

    The most important asset of the Andreas Church is the pulpit from which Martin Luther in 1546, preached his last four sermons. With the help of donations from the United States, the pulpit was renovated, and in Minneapolis issued. Just in time for the reformation anniversary in your face and takes you back to his usual place in the Andreas Church in Eisleben.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Death house

    At the Andreas Church square No. 7 is the house of the the world may believe that Martin Luther here on the 18th. February 1546 died. However, there is a likelihood of confusion, the actual death house the current Hotel “Graf von Mansfeld” in the marketplace. A bizarre story that goes far back:

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Replica of the death-bed

    After Luther’s death, the original death house quickly became a place of pilgrimage. But again and again Luther admirer of wood particles broke from the death-bed. To end this cult of relics, the Evangelical Church in 1707, the death-bed of Luther to burn and the house close. Later chroniclers mistook the exact place of death of the reformer.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Back to the supposed place of death

    The mistake was only discovered in the 1960-ies. However, since the Comrades of the SED-ruled on the original plot. The decided, the wrong death house more than the real spend. And so it has remained until today.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    Dying room

    As always, Luther’s death house was renovated from 2010 to 2013, basic and advanced. Highlight of the exhibition is the dying room, a reconstruction from the 19th century. Century. The stylized coffin contains at least the original Bahrtuch, covered in 1546, Luther’s coffin.

  • On-the-go in Eisleben, Luther’s hometown

    In the name of the (Luther’s)-Rose

    A Rose with heart and cross for Martin Luther, it was the Symbol of his faith. He used the Luther rose once as a seal for his letters, his native town sites has to be with you today on the way to the main effect of Luther in Eisleben. Can’t run in the peaceful town, pretty distinctive are signposts from all.

    Author: Kerstin Schmidt


Eisleben and Mansfeld – Luther’s childhood, cities, and the anniversary of the reformation

Often you will be called only after Wittenberg. However, Eisleben and Mansfeld want to present themselves in 2017, as Luther places on a par, are you still connected from his birth to his death with Luther.

The market with the monument, the town hall, the St. Andrew’s Church and the death house: How to be strung, the Luther work sites and buildings from the time of the reformation in Eisleben. A few streets away is the birth house of Martin Luther (1483-1546) and the Petri-Pauli-Church in which the reformer was baptized. Last September, the Luther was in the town in the southern Harz mountains-monument after renovation work revealed that the sculptor Rudolf Siemering in 1883 to Luther, 400. Birthday created. “For Luther, baptism was the most important event in his life, he Eisleben Association,” says the Director of the Luther memorials Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt, Stefan Rhein. The late middle ages, modeled on the Church Baptistry and baptismal font of 1518, are therefore important parts of the permanent exhibition in Luther’s house of birth. It comes in the core from the second half of the 15th century. Century, but was built after a town fire in 1689.

Luther’s last path

Like the other Luther sites in Eisleben and Mansfeld, it was modernized. Alone in the museums in Eisleben and Mansfeld, various exhibitions, a Luther archive and the refurbishment of the St. Peter’s Church, today, the “centre of baptism”, have been invested since 2007, around 18 million euros. The four museums of the Foundation, Luther in Wittenberg and Eisleben and Wittenberg’s city Church and the castle Church, a Unesco world heritage memorials.

In Eisleben, lived in the little Martin after his birth, on 10. November 1483, only six months, and then Luther went a good ten kilometers away, and Mansfeld, where he spent 14 years. Later, Luther was in Eisleben, where he is also on 18. February 1546 died. In the converted Ensemble, known since 1726 as his death, is showing the exhibition “Luther’s last path” his last trip, he wanted to settle a dispute of the Mansfeld counts.

New construction in Mansfeld: “the Museum of Luther’s parental home”

Testimonies of Childhood

Mansfeld had been much more a home for Luther as the Wittenberg emphasizes the Rhine. The connection pull through the whole life of the reformer. “The opening of the parents house-Museum with the exhibition ‘I am a Mans field table child’ has set Mansfeld back to the Luther-map”, says Rhein.

The Mans fields Museum is considered to be the world’s only institution dedicated to Luther’s Childhood. To see the marbles are, for example, three clay, with whom Martin should have played, rules, and ceramic shards from the Luther household. Was found the half of the 230 exhibits from 2003 to 2011, archaeologists in the foundations of the house. As the most stupendous discoveries of bones were from the waste pit, then singing birds were part of the diet of the wealthy family.

As Luther’s places in Eisleben and Mansfeld are so Wittenberg, where the Reformation in 1517, took the theses. Nevertheless, both cities seem to stand in the shadow of the city on the Elbe. Add to that the decline of the mining industry, which had determined the Region of around 800 years. With the collapse of the GDR and mining about 30,000 jobs were lost in the Region. Eisleben had before 1989 to around 30,000 inhabitants, currently there are 18.500.

Anniversary without mass events

Mayor Jutta Fischer sees in the reformation jubilee for Eisleben “great opportunities to spread the good reputation of the Luther city is also internationally”. Eisleben and Mansfeld are expecting more guests. Many individual tourists could escape the mass events in Wittenberg and other authentic Luther explore sites, says the city information.

The reformation anniversary in 2017 major programmes are planned. For example, these are in Eisleben in November, a Martin Luther birthday party with a historic market and a Meeting of people named Luther, and in June, the Saxony-Anhalt-day, under the Motto “The world to guest in Luther’s home town”.

Karsten Wiedener, Wiebke Rannenberg (epd)