Event Highlights 2024/2025

Lecture series “A fresh look at 1525: events and perspectives” 

January 15, 2025, 7:00 pm 
Jakobikirche town library, Mühlhausen

Lecture: "500 years of the Battle of Frankenhausen - From the prehistory of the so-called peasant battle"

January 21, 2025, 7:30 pm 
Regionalmuseum Bad Frankenhausen

Lecture series “A fresh look at 1525: events and perspectives” 

February 12, 2025, 7:00 pm 
Jakobikirche town library, Mühlhausen

Lecture: "500 Battle of Frankenhausen 1525 - an event characterises the town and region"

February 18,  2025, 7:30 pm
Regionalmuseum Bad Frankenhausen

"Strangers in the imperial city", 12th scientific imperial city conference

March 03 – 05, 2025 
Mühlhausen

New permanent exhibition "Alte Münze" and special exhibition on the HEIMATSTIPENDIUM

March 22, 2025, 3:00 pm – Opening
Stolberg (Harz)

“Sword and scythe. Prints from the time of the Peasants' War” 

March 22 - June 15, 2025 
Wed-Sun, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, from April 11:00 am - 5:00 pm 
Greiz Summer Palace 

Müntzer's kitchen - Culinary journey through time with music 

March 29, 2025 
Bratwurst Museum, Mühlhausen 

Part of the national exhibition "Gerechtigkeyt 1525" - Planetary farmers

Spring 2025
Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale)

Lecture series “A fresh look at 1525: events and perspectives” 

April 02, 2025, 7:00 pm 
Jakobikirche municipal library, Mühlhausen

Unveiling of the Peasants' War monument based on designs by Albrecht Dürer 

April 05, 2025 
Kornmarkt, Mühlhausen

Bratwurst theater “Müntzers Mühle” 

April 05, 2025 
Further dates: April 12, April 26 & April 27, as well as May 02, May 03, May 10, May 17, May 30 & May 31 
Bratwurst Museum, Mühlhausen 

Sermon series of the Evangelical Church Mühlhausen on Müntzer quotes 

April 06, 2025, 10:00 am 
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen

Easter market

April 17, 2025 
Mühlhausen

Exhibition "Apocalyptic Art" of the Wittenberg Art Collection

April – October 2025 
Mühlhausen

Co-operative exhibition: 1525 - Peasants' War in the Henneberg region

On closer inspection, the great German Peasants' War of 1525 consisted of a number of regional peasant wars. In Thuringia, the focal points were in the north - associated with the names Thomas Müntzer, Mühlhausen and Frankenhausen - and in the south-west - the Henneberger Land, which belonged to the Franconian Imperial District and is now part of the Free States of Thuringia and Bavaria.

April – October 2025

• Special exhibition "CASTLES in the Peasants' War" (April 18 – November 19)
  German Castle Museum Veste Heldburg
• Special exhibition "The PEASANTS and the Peasants' War" (April 10 – October 19)
  Henneberg Museum Münnerstadt
• Special exhibition "MONASTERIES and the Peasants' War: Storming the Silence? Veßra Monastery in the year of the Peasants' War 1525" (April 18 – October 19)
  Henneberg Museum Veßra Monastery
• Special exhibition "Peasants' War and the TOWN" (April 27 – September 05)
  Museum Wilhelmsburg Castle Schmalkalden
• Special exhibition "REGIONAL RULE and the Peasants' War" (May 05 – November 02)
  Natural History Museum Bertholdsburg Castle Schleusingen

 

Opening of the national exhibition "Freiheyt 1525 - 500 years of the Peasants' War"

April 26 – October 19, 2025
Mühlhäusen Museums, Mühlhausen

• "Society in transition: living environment - models of order - upheavals" 
  Museum St. Marien | Müntzer Memorial Mühlhausen
• "The Peasants' War 1524/25: Radicalisation - Crisis Management - Escalation - Consequences"
  Peasants' War Museum Kornmarktkirche Mühlhausen
• "Interpretation and Reception: Memory - Instrumentalisation - Interpretation"
  Mühlhausen Museum of Cultural History
• "History Lab: History laboratory and cultural space for guests and citizens around the state exhibition" 
  Museum All Saints' Church Mühlhausen

Legend of Cross - Freyheit (with Olympic champion Nils Schumann)

May 03, 2025 
Am Schlachtberg, Bad Frankenhausen 

Showcase Exhibition "A count in conflict. Sonddershausen and the Peasants' War"

May 04, 2025, 3:00 pm – Opening in the Blue Room in the Sondershausen Castle Museum
Exhibition period: May 04 – October 26, 2025 
Sondershausen Castle

Sermon series of the Evangelical Church Mühlhausen on Müntzer quotes 

May 04, 2025, 10:00 am 
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen 

"Tour of the ages with historical models by Werner Tübke"

Opening of the state exhibition "Freiheyt 1525 - 500 years of the Peasants' War"
May 10 – August 17, 2025
Panoramamuseum Bad Frankenhausen

Special exhibition: "500 years of the Peasants' Battle of Frankenhausen 1525 - an event characterises the town and region"

May 10, 2025, in the morning – Opening #DENKjahr 2025
Special exhibition period: May 10 - August 17, 2025
Special themed exhibitions: August 17 - October 31, 2025
Regionalmuseum Bad Frankenhausen

 

Presentation of the new memorial plaque at the Peasants' War Memorial

May 15, 2025
Rieseninger Berg, Mühlhausen

Part of the national exhibition "Gerechtigkeyt 1525" - Public art trail

May 17, 2025 – Opening
City of Allstedt

Müntzer festival afternoon with concerts

May 17, 2025
Görmar, Mühlhausen

Thomas Müntzer Festival - signs and wonders

May 22 – June 22, 2025 (always Thursday to Sunday)
Bad Frankenhausen

Festival in dialogue: Clarinets & Friends

May 22 – 25, 2025 
Mühlhausen

Mühlhausen Freedom Conference: International conference on peasant uprisings

May 28, 2025 
All Saints' Church, Mühlhausen

Freiheytsfest - medieval market with scenic presentation

May 29 – June 01, 2025 
Mühlhausen

Sermon series of the Evangelical Church Mühlhausen on Müntzer quotes 

June 01, 2025, 10:00 am 
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen

Thematic church service with clown

June 13, 2025
Kurpark Bad Frankenhausen

Kultursommer meets Thomas-Müntzer Festival

June 16 – 29, 2025
Bad Frankenhausen

City tour " In the footsteps of Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants' War events of 1525 through Bad Frankenhausen"

June 17, 2025, 7:00 pm
from Regionalmuseum Bad Frankenhausen 

Part of the state exhibition "Gerechtigkeyt 1525" - multimedia exhibition on Thomas Müntzer

Summer 2025
Allstedt Castle

Sermon series of the Evangelical Church Mühlhausen on Müntzer quotes 

July 06, 2025, 10:00 am
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen

Artists' symposium on the theme of “Freedom” organized by Kunstwestthüringer e.V.

July 13, 2025
Mehrgenerationenhaus, Mühlhausen

Sermon series of the Evangelical Church Mühlhausen on Müntzer quotes 

August 03, 2025, 10:00 am
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen

“Frankenhäuser Fryheits-Festival” with concerts 

August 21 - 24, 2025
Castle square, Bad Frankenhausen

Opera gala program “Choirs of Freedom” 
(Opera choir of the German National Theater with the Staatskapelle Weimar)

August 23, 2025, 7:00 pm
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen

Special exhibition “From straw roof to agrotechnician”

August 23, 2025 - January 04, 2026
Thuringian Open-Air Museum Hohenfelden 

 

Decentralised church congress all about Thomas Müntzer

August 29 – 31, 2025
in Stolberg (Harz), Allstedt and Heldrungen

148th Mühlhausen town fair with fairground parade (largest town fair in Germany)

August 29 - September 07, 2025
Mühlhausen

Night of the open churches

August 30, 2025 
Bad Frankenhausen

Renaissance craft market

August 31, 2025 
Kristanplatz, Mühlhausen

Battle re-enactment on the mountain

September 06 – 07, 2025 
At the Schlachtberg, area around the Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen

Fair organ concert “Mühlhäuser Müntzer Musik”

September 06, 2025, 8:30 pm
St. Petri, Mühlhausen

Farmers' market for the #DENKjahr 2025

September 12 – 14, 2025 
Bad Frankenhausen

Open Monument Day with traditional organic market

September 14, 2025 
Mühlhausen

Premiere of a Müntzer oratorio

September 14, 2025 
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen

 

1st speech on “Freedom and community”

September 19, 2025
Mühlhausen

Children's medieval market

September 20, 2025
House of the church & Kristanplatz, Mühlhausen

Sermon series of the Evangelical Church Mühlhausen on Müntzer quotes 

September 21, 2025, 10:00 am
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen

17th Bratwurstiade “Müntzer - priests, princes, peasants”

September 27, 2025
Bratwurst Museum, Mühlhausen

Traditional autumn market on the Day of German Unity

October 03, 2025 
Mühlhausen

Harvest & farmers' market

October 05, 2025
Untermarkt & Bachplatz, Mühlhausen & Bad Frankenhausen 

Night of lights with illumination of the Mühlhausen churches

October 17 – 18, 2025 
Mühlhausen

Last day of the state exhibition "Freiheyt 1525 - 500 years of the Peasants' War"

October 19, 2025 
Mühlhausen

Performance of Thomas Müntzer's German mass 

October 31, 2025 
Divi Blasii Church, Mühlhausen 

Müntzer mass in the Lower Church

October 31, 2025 
Bad Frankenhausen

“Spiel-frei-heyt” theater night of the 3K Theaterwerkstatt

November 08, 2025
3K Theater Kilianikirche, Mühlhausen

Mühlhausen Christmas market

December 10 – 14, 2025 
Mühlhausen

 

You can download the event highlights here. Further information on the two state exhibitions in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt can be found at www.bauernkrieg2025.de and www.gerechtigkeyt1525.de. 

Header: Kur- & Tourismus GmbH Bad Frankenhausen