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Trans World Travel has prepared a variety of tours to feature different aspects of Europe and the Reformation:
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Reformation Heritage
Romantic Germany and Lutheran Heritage
Our Reformation and Romantic Germany tour includes some of the most romantic destinations in Germany, but still with the focus on the essential foundations of the Reformation. Here is a sample 12-day itinerary:
Reformation and Romantic Germany Itinerary
Day One: US Departure
Day Two: Frankfurt - Worms
Worms - site of Luther’s trial and excommunication.
Day Three: Heidelberg - Rhine River Cruise - Heidelberg
The Rhine River - a leisurely three hour
cruise past castles and ruined fortresses is a journey through 1000
years of history and legends.
The River Rhine at Rüdesheim
© Rüdesheim Tourist AG/Karl-Heinz Walter
Day Four: Heidelberg - Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Heidelberg - the very symbol of German Romanticism
with Germany's oldest University, where Martin Luther held one of his
earliest disputes with church leaders.
Day Five: Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Rothenburg ob der Tauber - a medieval jewel,
still completely surrounded by its fortifications, where time seems
to have stood still for 400 years.
Day Six: Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Eisenach - Wartburg - Erfurt
Eisenach - where Luther attended school
and sang as a choirboy and birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose
music became a celebration of his Lutheran faith.
The Wartburg - Luther's hiding-place for 10 months following the Diet of Worms, where he translated the New Testament from the original Greek text into German.
Day Seven: Erfurt
Erfurt - Luther's university and the start
of his monastic life.
Day Eight: Erfurt - Weimar - Eisleben - Leipzig
Weimar - cradle of German culture and one
of the earliest cities to embrace Luther's Reformation.
Eisleben - the town where Martin Luther was born and, concidentally, also died. The houses associated with both events now trace the origins of the Reformation through Luther's own roots and heritage.
Day Nine: Leipzig - Torgau - Wittenberg
Leipzig - the crucible of the peaceful revolution
which led to the downfall of East Germany's Communist regime in 1989.
Torgau - the ‘wet-nurse’ of the Reformation, it was here that the articles were drawn up, which later became the basis for the Augsburg Confession.
Day Ten: Wittenberg
Wittenberg - the city regarded as the
very cradle of the Reformation, where Luther lived and worked from
1508 to 1546 and where his action of nailing the 95 theses to the
door of the Castle Church in 1517 set in motion the movement which
would shake the Christian church to its foundations.
Wittenberg Market Square
Photo used with permission of WittenbergKultur
e.V
Day Eleven: Wittenberg - Berlin
Berlin - fascinating city reinstated as
Germany’s capital and seat of government after re-unification in 1990.
Day Twelve: Berlin - USA
Booking Your Luther Decade Tour
If you would like to know more about the Protestant Reformation itself, then take a look at our Reformation history page.
If you have any questions about leading a group to the Luther Decade or about customizing a tour to suit the interests of your group, then we have prepared a page for group leaders.
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