ELCA Wittenberg Center

The City Church in Wittenberg where Martin Luther preached.

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The ELCA Wittenberg Center can assist you in exploring the many study and learning opportunities available in the City of Wittenberg. In partnership with the LWF Wittenberg Center and the Colleg Wittenberg, the ELCA Wittenberg Center offers hospitality and learning opportunities available in the heart of the historic city of Martin Luther and in other Reformation sites. We can arrange:

• English language resources for pilgrims following in the footsteps of the Reformation

  The new Colleg Wittenberg

• Resources and references for scholars doing research on the Reformation and the Protestant Churches of Germany
• Hosting of groups from colleges, seminaries and congregations through the Colleg Wittenberg

The new Colleg Wittenberg offers inexpensive lodging for up to 48 people. It has seminar rooms, a cafeteria, laundry facilities, bikes and other amenities.  They will work with universities and seminaries to provide a quality educational experience. Find out more about studying in Wittenberg in this downloadable pdf. 

The Colleg recently sponsored a trip for Musicians in honor of the Luther Decade's 2012 theme of Music and the Reformation in which musicians from all over the U.S. visited Luther sites, sang and had a chance to play the organ in the Castle Church and visited beautiful churches and the homes or museums of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Bach and Handel.  

Towards 2017: The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

The Luther Decade, begun in 2008 by the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), commemorates the events leading up to 2017, the year considered by many to be the birth of the Reformation. The EKD has planned annual themes throughout these years, culminating in special memorial events in 2017.  See the Luther Decade website for information centered around the themes and pilgrimages to the Reformation sites.

Think about having your choir participate in the International Choir Forum during 2012, a chance to sing in the Castle Church between May and October, 2012, take advantage of the many musical offerings and see the sites of Luther during the year of Music and the Reformation.  For more information on the International Choir Forum, see the Castle Church's website at www.schlosskirche-wittenberg.de. 

Video Resources

Opening the Door to Luther:  A Pilgrimage through Lutherland with Rick Steves

Other Living Lutheran Videos about Luther

Upcoming Trips

Muhlenberg and Lutherland 2012

Led by Dr. Andrew J. White, Professor emeritus at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
May 15 - 28, 2012 

The Lutheran Historical Societies of the Mid-Atlantic and of Eastern Pennsylvania invite you to consider a trip that is a Lutheran Historian’s dream – Muhlenberg plus Lutherland. Three hundred years ago, 1711, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, was born. We celebrate his birth by returning to the land of his birth and the land of Luther.  This trip offers a fitting climax to the Muhlenberg Year 2011 – 2012 and provides a "stepping" stone" on the pathway to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation (1517 – 2017.)   The itinerary includes Eisenach, Wartburg Castle, Einbeck (Muhlenberg’s birthplace), Halle, Eisleben, Wittenberg, Torgau, Herrnhut (Moravians), Leipzig, Erfurt, Marburg, Worm and Mainz. 

Cost is $ 1,990.00 per person (not including airfair), double occupancy, based on 35 people.   Single room supplement is $400.00.  If fewer than 35 register the price will be somewhat higher per person. 

Please contact Prof. Andrew White at: jackmimi@hotmail.com.