Motherland of the . Group offers. When was born on 10 November 1483, was at the height of its power. Since 1464, Elector Ernst and his brother Albert had together been ruling the most powerful country in the centre of the Holy German Empire. But just two years after Luther’s birth, Ernst and Albert made the biggest mistake in Saxony’s history: they split up the land. The ruling Wettin was divided into two lines, the Ernestine and Albertine. Now there were two countries with the name Saxony, the Electorate and the Duchy, and it was the sons of Ernst and Albert who played the most important, albeit different, roles in the life of Martin Luther and for the course of the Reformation. While the ducal Albertines made their new residence, became the centre of power under the electoral Ernes- tines. After the Albertines had taken the electoral dignity off the Ernestines, their strongly augmented Saxony, which by then also comprised Torgau and , the “Mother of Reformation”, had the leading role among the Protestant regions of for a very long time and made for the consolidation and advancement of the Reformation. At the end of the 16th century, Saxony had already been given the honorary title “Motherland of the Reformation”, a legacy to which also the current federal state declares itself. Together with Reise Mission, Saxony has deve- loped bookable group offers for you, for easy and comfortable travelling to the sites of the Reformation. These offers can be combined and customised to your indivi- dual needs. Travel dates on request are possible as well. Contact Reise Mission and celebrate 500 years of Reformation with us:

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Portrait of Martin Luther by from the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden 4-day tour (DE-E-75): Luther as monk – traces of his order

During a severe thunderstorm on 2 July 1505 in the present-day Stotternheim district of , Luther was in fear of his life. A few days later, he entered the monastery of the Augustinian Hermits out of gratitude for his salvation, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. A year later he went to study at the University of Wittenberg where he lived in the newly built Augustinian monastery. In 1514, Luther was appointed Prior Provincial of his order. In this role in 1516, Luther visited numerous monasteries of his order and thus also came to Dresden and his town of birth .

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4-Day tour (DE-E-73): Day 1 | Arrival | Erfurt: guided tour of the Augustine monastery, Possible travel dates: where Luther became a monk, optional participation in the Midday 2014: 19 – 22 March / 26– 29 March / Erected according to Prayer Leipzig: Accommodation for 3 nights 23 – 26 April / 15–18 May / 11–14 June / 06 – 09 August / Luther‘s ideals – significant Day 2 | Leipzig: sightseeing walk with a visit to St. Thomas Church, 27– 30 August / 12 –15 November churches in Saxony home of the world-famous Thomaner Choir and former church of 2015: on request the Augustine monastery St. Thomas. Grimma: visit to the church of the former Augustine monastery, where Luther often preached, Group tariff: “It is the intention of this building that nothing else shall happen inside it except that our dear Lord shall speak sightseeing walk and visit to the ruined monastery Nimbschen starting at 250 EUR per person, to us through His Holy Word, and we in turn talk to Him through prayer and praise.” With these words on depending on group size; 5 October 1544, Martin Luther inaugurated the world’s first newly-built Protestant church in Torgau’s Schloss single room supplement: 90 EUR Hartenfels Castle. This building implemented the spiritual programme of the Reformation in architecture and Day 3 | Dresden: city tour and sightseeing walk, including the per person art for the first time. Also in the Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), known as perfection of church Jägerhof, which was erected instead of the Augustine monastery building according to Luther‘s ideals, the pulpit for the proclamation of The Word of God stands in the centre of that Luther inspected in 1516 the tabernacle.

Day 4 | Wechselburg: trip to the monastery Wechselburg, once Pictures from left: founded by the Augustines, and visit to the Roman Church with St Thomas Church, Leipzig I Reiseverlauf (Subject to alterations): its rood screen, a prominent evidence of German art of the 13th Former monastery church, Grimma I Possible travel dates: century | Departure Monastery church, Wechselburg Day 1 | Arrival | Torgau: political centre of the Reformation; sight- 2014: 19 – 22 March / 26 – 29 March / seeing walk to the sites of the Reformation, including castle church 23 – 26 April / 15 – 18 May / and last residence of Luther‘s wife Katharina Dresden: Accommo- 11 – 14 June / 6 – 9 August / dation for 3 nights 27 – 30 August / 12 – 15 November 2015: on request Day 2 | Dresden: city tour and sightseeing walk; including Frauen- kirche (Church of Our Lady) and Kreuzkirche (Church of the Group tariff: Holy Cross) Grossenhain: individual tour of the Marienkirche starting at 240 EUR per person, (St. Mary‘s Church), a building by a student of George Bähr, depending on group size; architect of the Frauenkirche single room supplement: 80 EUR per person Day 3 | Seiffen: centre of Saxon wood craft and birthplace of nutcrackers and incense smokers; tour with visit to the octagonal Seiffen Church, modelled on the Frauenkirche and found in many Christmas articles Pictures from left: Castle church, Torgau I Seiffen I Day 4 | Departure Church of Our Lady, Dresden 5-Day tour (DE-P-68): – on the trail of the Lutherin

Probably the most popular woman of the Reformation is Luther‘s wife Katharina, née von Bora, a former nun who wed Martin Luther on 13 June 1525 in Wittenberg. Often it is only the ideal image of a Protestant pastor‘s wife from the 19th century that is projected onto her, it goes unmentioned though that she lead a household similar to a small company in its size. After Luther‘s death in 1546, Katharina lived further six years and died in Torgau on 20 December 1552.

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Day 1 | Arrival | Neukieritzsch: , Kieritzsch Possible travel dates: 5-Day tour (DE-P-84): Church with medallions of the Luthers from Katharina‘s manor 2014: 19-23 March / 26-30 March / “Gut Zöllsdorf”, Katharina von Bora Church Brehna: former 23-27 April / 15-19 May / 11-15 June / Luther‘s patrons – the Saxon abbey of the Augustine chapter of canonesses where Katharina had 6-10 August / 27-31 August / 12-16 dynasty of the Wettins been raised by nuns Leipzig: Accommodation for 4 nights November 2015: on request The Wettins ruled the area of today‘s Saxony for 829 years bringing forth margraves, electors and kings. This is Day 2 | Leipzig: city tour and sightseeing walk, including the place how they went down in German history as the longest-ruling noble family. Saxon electors played a crucial of the Leipzig and other sites of the Reformation Group tariff: role during the Reformation. Without the Wettins Luther‘s doctrines wouldn‘t have been spread and established. starting at 310 EUR per person, Then again Luther strongly influenced the Wettins‘ concept of rulership who remained the “Guardians of Day 3 | Grimma: sightseeing walk and visit to the ruins of the depending on group size; ” until well into the 20th century. convent Marienthron where Katharina lived as a nun and from single room supplement: 110 EUR which she fled together with other nuns Leipzig: free time at your per person disposal Reiseverlauf (Subject to alterations): Day 4 | Torgau: guided tours in the castle church, the first newly-built Protestant church consecrated by Luther himself, where Day 1 | Arrival | Rochlitz: visit to the castle and the permanent Possible travel dates: Katharina lies buried, tour to all sites of the Reformation and visit Pictures from left: exhibition on the forgotten Wettins Leipzig: Accommodation for 2014: 19-23 March / 26-30 March / to Katharina‘s last residence Wittenberg: city tour with visit to the Katharina Luther Museum, Torgau I Ruins 4 nights 23-27 April / 14-18 May / 11-15 June / castle church (with reservations) and the Luther House of Marienthron convent, Grimma I 6-10 August / 27-31 August / 12-16 Epitaph of Katharina Luther in St Mary‘s Day 2 | Nossen: visit to the monastery park of Altzella, the burial November Day 5 | Departure Church, Torgau site of early Wettin margraves : visit to the cathedral, the 2015: on request burial place of the Protestant Wettins and the castle, former ducal seat of Henry the Pious and today‘s exhibition venue of the world‘s Group tariff: most beautiful collection of minerals starting at 325EUR per person, depending on group size; Day 3 | : former Saxon capital; visit to Castle single room supplement: 110 EUR and cathedral, pre-Reformation burial site of the Wettins Dresden: per person Saxon capital and long-term residential city of the Wettins, sightsee- ing walk, including Procession of Princes and a visit to the former chapel of the palace and burial place of the Catholic Wettins

Day 4 | Torgau: sightseeing walk Wittenberg: city tour with visit to the castle church (with reservations), Luther House and Pictures from left: Melanchthonhaus (exteriors only) Hartenfels Castle, Torgau I Coat of arms of the Saxon Electors Day 5 | Wettin: outside visit to Burg Wettin Castle, the ancestral at Hartenfels Castle I Mausoleum at Altzella castle of the Wettins | Departure Monastery Park, Nossen 5-Day tour (DE-K-70): The other side – Catholic tracks in the Motherland of the Reformation

Since Upper only became part of Saxony after the Reformation, some Catholic islands survived there, especially in the settlement zone of the Sorbian minority. With the conversion of the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong to Catholicism in 1697 and his coronation as king of , Catholics returned to the Saxon court. And after the Second World War, Catholic refugees from the former German eastern territories settled in Saxony. The contrasts between the confessions from the period of Reformation have not been fully overcome yet. But the yearning for church unity is strong among many Christians and ecumenism is practised every day.

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Itinerary (Subject to alterations): New home – religious refugees Day 1 | Arrival | Dresden: city tour, including the Catholic cathe- Possible travel dates: dral, the former chapel of the palace; accommodation for 4 nights 2014: 09-13 April / 23-27 April / and missionaries 14-18 May / 21-25 May / 11-15 June / 27- Day 2 | Panschwitz-Kuckau: visit to the more than 750-year-old 31 August / 03-07 September / “Cuius regio, eius religio” – “whose realm, his religion” – was the formula of the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, Cistercian monastery St. Marienstern Ralbitz-Rosenthal: visit to 22-26 September according to which it was left to the sovereign to establish the religion of his subjects. This was a victory for the the Marian pilgrimage site of the Catholic Sorbs 2015: on request Protestants and those Electors who were trying to maximize independence from the Emperor. But it also led to the persecution of heretics, who often had to flee to other places where they were also not welcome. Only after Day 3 | Ostritz: guided tour of the Cistercian convent St. Mari- Group tariff: the did the situation stabilise. The Protestant faith could now be carried out into the world. enthal, oldest convent of the order in Germany : sightseeing starting at 320 EUR per person, But it was still a long way to religious tolerance and ecumenism. walk, individual round tour in St. Petri Cathedral, Germany‘s depending on group size; oldest double church single room supplement: 125 EUR per person Itinerary (Subject to alterations): Day 4 | Meissen: sightseeing walk, including Meißen Cathedral, former seat of the Catholic bishops of Meissen: optional visit to the Day 1 | Arrival | Markneukirchen: centre of musical instrument Possible travel dates: State Manufacture Meissen, Stolpen: one of the seats of making, founded by Bohemian religious refugees; optional visit to 2014: 19-24 March / 26-31 March / the Meissen bishops after the introduction of the Reformation; visit the Musical Instruments Museum Leipzig: Accommodation for 3 23-28 April / 15-20 May / 11-16 June / to St. Lorenz Church and the castle ruins nights 6-11 August / 27 August - Pictures from left: 1 September / 12-17 November Day 5 | : sightseeing walk, including cathedral and bishop St. Marienthal Convent, Ostritz I Day 2 | Leipzig: city tour on the tracks of the Huguenots; sight- 2015: on request castle (exteriors only) | Departure Cathedral, Dresden I Meissen seeing walk on the “Leipzig Notenspur” (Music Trail), including Mendelssohn House, leisure time Group tariff: starting at 380 EUR per person, Day 3 | Halle: visit to the “Franckesche Stiftungen” and the depending on group size; “Stadtgottesacker” single room supplement: 135 EUR per person Day 4 | Dresden: city tour and sightseeing walk Görlitz: Accommo- dation for 2 nights

Day 5 | Herrnhut: guided tour of the sites of the in Herrnhut; optional visit to the demonstration workshop of the Moravian Stars Niesky: methodically arranged settlement of the Moravian Church in Herrnhut; individual tour Pictures from left: Moravian Stars demonstration workshop I Day 6 | Pulsnitz: native town of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, first Mendelssohn monument at the Gewandhaus Lutheran missionary and founder of the Tamil Evangelical-Lutheran concert hall, Leipzig I Church (TELC); sightseeing walk | Departure Violin maker, Markneukirchen Copenhagen Budapest D r

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CZECH REPUBLIC Sachsen 1517 und heute 6-Day tour (DE-E-72): From heaven above – Reformation and music

Throughout Christian history, religion has inextricably linked itself with music. “Whereof I now will say and sing” – thus versifies the reformer Martin Luther in his famous Christmas song “Vom Himmel hoch”. For the “Wittenberger Nachtigall” (Wittenberg Nightingale) music was a means of the Holy Ghost. And the biblical word inspired exceptionally gifted people time and again to compose stunning music – as it did with the “Father of German Music”, Heinrich Schütz, and the “Fifth Evangelist”, .

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Day 1 | Arrival | Eisenach: native town of Bach and dwelling of Possible travel dates: 6-Day tour (DE-P-69): Luther during his school days; sightseeing walk with Luther House 2014: 18-23 March / 25-30 March / (exteriors only) and the church Georgenkirche; overnight stay 22-27 April / 14-19 May / Painters of Reformation – 11-16 June / 5-10 August / on the tracks of the Cranachs Day 2 | Weimar: city of poets and thinkers and domain of Bach; 26-31 August / 11-16 November sightseeing walk Bad Köstritz: visit to the Heinrich Schütz House 2015: on request Leipzig: Accommodation for 4 nights When Elector Frederick the Wise appointed Lucas Cranach the Elder as his court painter, this was the start Group tariff: of an extremely prolific artist’s workshop in Wittenberg, which probably created more than 5,000 works. Day 3 | Leipzig: domain and last residence of Bach; round tour on starting at 385 EUR per person, Although Cranach made no secret of his sympathy for Luther and the Reformation and became famous for his the tracks of Bach, city tour depending on group size; portraits of the Electors of Saxony and the Reformers, he still worked for Catholic clients such as Duke single room supplement: 135 EUR George the Bearded or Albert of Mainz. He passed on his workshop to his equally famous son Lucas Cranach Day 4 | Köthen: Bach‘s domain and location of his second per person the Younger, who continued it successfully. wedding; sightseeing walk Halle: native town of Händel and domain of Bach‘s oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann; sightseeing walk Reiseverlauf (Subject to alterations): Day 5 | Dresden: organ prayer and guided tour of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady); city tour Day 1 | Arrival | Leipzig: city tour, including the site of the Leipzig Possible travel dates: Pictures from left: Disputation; accommodation for 2 nights 2014: 19-24 March / 26-31 March / Day 6 | Markneukirchen: centre of Saxon musical instrument Instrument maker, Markneukirchen I 23-28 April / 15-20 May / 11-16 June / making; guided tour of the Musical Instruments Museum or visit to Church of Our Lady, Dresden I Day 2 | Wittenberg: sightseeing walk including Cranach House 6-11 August / 27 August- an instrument maker workshop | Departure Bach Museum, Leipzig (exteriors only); optional visit to the Cranach-Höfe 1 September / 12-17 November 2015: on request Day 3 | Dresden: optional visit to the world‘s largest Cranach collection in the museums of the Dresden State Art Collections; Group tariff: accommodation for 3 nights; free time at your disposal starting at 395 EUR per person, depending on group size; Day 4 | Dresden: city tour and sightseeing walk: organ prayer single room supplement: 120 EUR and guided tour of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) per person Meissen: sightseeing walk; optional visit to the Meissen State Porcelain Manufactury

Day 5 | Freiberg: sightseeing walk; optional visit to the Municipal and Mining Museum with its Cranach paintings Augustusburg: visit to the castle and the castle church with an altarpiece by Lucas Pictures from left: Cranach the Younger showing the family of Elector Augustus Castle church, Augustusburg I Cranach altar in the Old Masters Picture Day 6 | Schneeberg: tour of St. Wolfgang Church with its signifi- Gallery, Dresden | cant Reformation altar from the Cranach workshop | Departure St Wolfgang‘s Church, Schneeberg 6-Day tour (DE-E-74): Seeing God – illustrated bibles in Saxony

With the Reformation came the demand to open up education to everybody. It was probably for this reason that Martin Luther discouraged the destruction of religious images in his sphere of influence, because for him and other moderate Reformers in a time in which most people could neither read nor write, pictures from the Bible had great educational value. Thus, works in Saxony remained intact with their impressive wealth of form and artistic perfection and were even supplemented by worthy new creations.

Itinerary (Subject to alterations): 6-Day tour (DE-E-77): Day 1 | Arrival | Annaberg-Buchholz: visit to the church Annen- Possible travel dates: kirche with its 80 biblical reliefs on the gallery parapets Freiberg: 2014: 16-21 March / 23-28 March / Renaissance – Luther‘s Accommodation for 3 nights 20-25 April / 12-17 May / 8-13 June / 3-8 August / 24-29 August / period of art Day 2 | Freiberg: sightseeing walk Pirna: visit to the municipal 9-14 November church St. Marien with its “Pirnaer Bilderbibel” (illustrated bible) 2015: on request While the Reformation destroyed the unity of faith, it still emerged out of the yearning of men for spiritual and sightseeing walk through the historic city centre with its and religious reformation. That applies to the period of art at the time of Reformation as well, which interestingly precious historical buildings Group tariff: enough was called “reformation” by contemporaries. It wasn‘t before the 19th century that the term starting at 375 EUR per person, “Renaissance” emerged. The Renaissance was oriented towards Roman art, and the Humanism arising at the Day 3 | Görlitz: sightseeing walk through the city with its 3,500 depending on group size; same time revived the antique philosophers, historians and poets – even the Reformation fell back on the Greek listed buildings, including the Biblical House with scenes from the single room supplement: 105 EUR and Hebrew urtext for bible translations. Saxony is unjustly being reduced to the baroque period, although Old and New Testament on the Renaissance frontage; visit to the per person the witnesses of Renaissance are just as present. Holy Sepulchure Reiseverlauf (Subject to alterations): Day 4 | Leipzig: city tour and sightseeing walk; accommodation for 2 nights Day 1 | Arrival | Augustusburg: visit to the castle, a masterpiece of Possible travel dates: Renaissance accomplished in 1572 Dresden: Accommodation for 2014: 18-23 March / 25-30 March / Day 5 | Torgau: tour of Schloss Hartenfels Castle (exteriors only) 3 nights 22-27 April / 14-19 May / 10-15 June / with castle church and the “Großer Wendelstein” stair tower 5-10 August / 26-31 August / Löbnitz: individual tour of the church with its ceiling fresco Day 2 | Dresden: city tour Meissen: tour through the historic city 11-16 November consisting of 250 panels Penig: individual tour of the church St. Pictures from left: centre with its abundance of Renaissance buildings 2015: on request Laurentiuskirche with its baroque ceiling fresco St Anne‘s Church, Annaberg-Buchholz I Portrait of Martin Luther at the ceiling of the church, Day 3 | Görlitz: city with the most Renaissance buildings in Group tariff: Day 6 | Departure Löbnitz I Ceiling fresco of the church, Penig Germany; sightseeing walk and individual view of the Holy Grave; starting at 390 EUR per person, free time at your disposal depending on group size; single room supplement: 130 EUR Day 4 | Pirna: tour through the historic city centre with its per person numerous Renaissance buildings : guided tour of the Renaissance castle, famous for serving as prison camp for officers of the allied forces during the Second World War Leipzig: Accommo- dation for 2 nights

Day 5 | Leipzig: sightseeing walk, including the old guildhall, one of the most significant Renaissance buildings Torgau: tour through Germany‘s best-preserved Renaissance city, including Schloss Hartenfels Castle and the Torgau guildhall (exteriors only) Pictures from left: Augustusburg I Old guildhall, Leipzig I Day 6 | Leipzig: free time at your disposal | Departure Lower Market, Görlitz 6-Day tour (DE-E-02): The Stone Bell – on the trail of the Frauenkirche

The statue of Martin Luther lay broken in the dust. The ruins of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) stood behind it on the Neumarkt square after its famous dome, the “Stone Bell”, had collapsed as a result of the excessive heat, two days after the bombing of Dresden. It therefore seems to be a miracle that the Baroque masterpiece was reconsecrated on 30 October 2005, after twelve years of faithful reconstruction and with the help of donations from all over the world. George Bähr, the church’s original architect, had already been faced with the enormous challenge of creating room for 5,000 people in a very limited space. It was not 7-Day tour (DE-P-37): only a daring design that still dominates Dresden’s skyline but that also represents the perfection of church construction according to Luther’s ideals. The Great Reformer – on the Itinerary (Subject to alterations): trail of Martin Luther

Day 1 | Arrival | Torgau: sightseeing walk with visit to the castle Possible travel dates: When Martin Luther published his theses in 1517, nobody would ever have guessed the far reaching changes that church, the first newly-built Protestant church Dresden: Accommo- 2014: 01-06 April / 12-17 May / would develop thereof. He didn‘t want to found a new church, just reform the old ones. He acted out of conviction dation for 5 nights 23-28 June / 01-07 Juli / but was yet a man full of doubts and contradictions. Following his trail shows the long path the Reformation had 18-23 August / 01-06 September / to take and how it became a success nevertheless. Day 2 | Dresden: city tour; organ prayer and guided tour of the 09-14 September / 06-11 October Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady); free time at your disposal 2015: on request Reiseverlauf (Subject to alterations): Day 3 | Hohnstein: individual view of the municipal church built Group tariff: by George Bähr Königstein: visit to Königstein fortress, Europe‘s starting at 345 EUR per person, Day 1 | Arrival | Eisenach: sightseeing walk; individual view of highest situated fortress; trip with the steam boat through the Elbe depending on group size; Castle, where Luther translated the New Testament into Possible travel dates: Sandstone Mountains up to Dresden-Pillnitz Dresden: individual single room supplement: 100 EUR German; overnight stay 2014: 18-23 March / 25-30 March / walk through Pillnitz castle park per person 22-27 April / 14-19 May / 10-15 June / Day 2 | Erfurt: guided city tour including the Augustine monastery 5-10 August / 26-31 August / Day 4 | Meissen: sightseeing walk with view of Albrechtsburg where Luther became a monk Leipzig: Accommodation for 5 nights 11-16 November Castle (exteriors only) Diesbar-Seusslitz: individual tour of 2015: on request the castle park that was, just as the castle church, redesigned by Day 3 | Borna: tour of the municipal church where Luther used to George Bähr preach Leipzig: city tour and sightseeing walk, including the place Group tariff: of the Leipzig Disputation and other sites of the Reformation starting at 455 EUR per person, Day 5 | Schmiedeberg: individual tour of the church “Zur Heiligen depending on group size; Dreieinigkeit” erected by George Bähr Weesenstein: tour of the Day 4 | Wittenberg: city tour with visit to the castle church (with single room supplement: 150 EUR castle and chapel, which were designed by George Bähr or his reservations), Luther House and Melanchthonhaus (exteriors only) per person apprentice Johann George Schmidt Grosssedlitz: visit to the Pictures from left: Eisleben: city tour with a visit to Luther‘s house of birth and last Baroque gardens Seusslitz Castle, Diesbar Seusslitz I residence (exteriors only), the Petri Paul Church and the church Church of Our Lady, Dresden I Marktkirche Day 6 | Dresden: Free time at your disposal | Departure Saxon Switzerland National Park Day 5 | Dresden: city tour and sightseeing walk with a visit to the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), the highlight of Protestant church building; optional steamboat trip

Day 6 | Leisnig: municipal church St. Matthäi with “Leisniger Kastenordnung” (ordinance of a common chest) Grimma: sightseeing walk and visit to the ruins of the convent Marienthron, where Luther‘s later wife Katharina von Bora lived as a nun Pictures from left: Luther monument and Emmaus Church, Dresden I Day 7 | Zwickau: sightseeing walk to Luther‘s preaching sites and Dresden with Church of Our Lady I Osterstein Castle, domains of Müntzer | Departure Zwickau 7-Day tour (DE-E-13): Witnesses of change – from monastery to monastery

Without the Reformation, there would be very few “callings” – because beforehand, people could be “called” only to matters spiritual. Since the salvation of Protestant Christians depended only on God’s grace and not their actions, they were now able to take Christian responsibility in ordinary life. As there was now no reason to take monastic vows to achieve salvation, the monasteries were quickly dissolved. However, some survived or were even revived, either in the same function or a different one.

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Day 1 | Arrival | Erfurt: guided tour of the former Augustine mo- Possible travel dates: nastery and optional participation in the Midday Prayer Leipzig: 2014: 20-26 March / 28 March-3 April / Accommodation for 3 nights 24-30 April / 16-22 May / 13-19 June / 8-14 August / 29 August-4 September / Day 2 | Grimma: visit to the ruins of the convent Marienthron, 14-20 November where Luther‘s later wife Katharina von Bora lived as a nun 2015: on request Leisnig: visit of the former Cistercian monastery Buch Chemnitz: individual tour of the castle church with its precious artworks and Group tariffe: Schlossberg Museum, a former Benedictine monastery starting at 480 EUR per person, depending on group size; Day 3 | Wittenberg: sightseeing walk with a visit to Luther House single room supplement: 125 EUR (exteriors only), the former “Schwarzes Kloster” (black monastery) per person of the Augustines; free time

Day 4 | Nossen: visit to the monastery park Altzella, one of the favourite motifs of romantic painters Dresden: Overnight stay Pictures from left: Day 5 | Dresden: city tour and sightseeing walk Panschwitz- Monastery ruins, Oybin I New Market with Kuckau: guided tour of the more than 750-year-old Cistercian Church of Our Lady, Dresden monastery St. Marienstern Görlitz: Accommodation for 2 nights

Day 6 | Ostritz: visit to the Cistercian convent St. Marienthal, the oldest convent of the Cistercian order in Germany Zittau: visit to the Great Lenten Veil in the former Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross) and to the Small Lenten Veil in the former Franciscan monastery Oybin: visit to the romantic ruins of the Celestines monastery and the “Kaiserhaus”

Day 7 | Wechselburg: visit to the romantic church of today‘s Benedictines monastery with the prominent rood screen | Departure Contact Information

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