freiheyt 1525. 500 years Peasants' War

In 2025, numerous museums in Europe are commemorating the Peasants' War, which 500 years ago led to numerous feuds not only in Germany, but also in other countries such as Austria and Switzerland, and left its mark on history. There were also riots and incendiary speeches in Thuringia and the neighbouring state of Saxony-Anhalt. The rural areas in the north of Thuringia in particular were the scene of the warlike conflicts.

The centre of the action was the former imperial city of Mühlhausen and the town of Bad Frankenhausen at the foot of the Kyffhäuser Mountains. Here, rebels raised "word and arms" against the clergy and nobility, fighting for more rights - for "freedom and justice". There were repeated uprisings; castles and churches were stormed and monasteries razed. Under the symbol of the rainbow and the flag of the radical reformer Thomas Müntzer, a decisive military conflict took place on the so-called Schlachtberg (today the site of the Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen).

Museum of Cultural History Mühlhausen

Treasures of history, archaeology and art

In the southern section of Mühlhausen’s historic city wall, a striking building in a Neo-Renaissance style rises up out of the old town, which is dominated largely by half-timbered buildings. This is the Museum of Cultural History – a wonderful ...

Thuringia’s global art in Bad Frankenhausen

A fantastically cunning monumental painting

Holidaymakers in Thuringia who are interested in art and culture can hardly miss it – literally or metaphorically: in the centre of the Kyffhäuser Nature Park, the striking building of the Panorama Museum sits enthroned on a solitary, though ...

St. Mary’s Museum and Müntzer Memorial

A Gothic stage for medieval prominence

The radical Reformer Thomas Müntzer, one of the best known protagonists of the German Peasant’s War of 1525, preached in Mühlhausen’s historic St. Mary’s Church, now a museum and a memorial to Müntzer, in the early modern era. The city’s aldermen ...

Peasants’ War Museum in the Corn Market Church

The eventful life of a church

The skyline of the medieval Imperial City of Mühlhausen is defined by the innumerable towers of its historic buildings – too many for a visitor to count easily. Amidst all these attractions stands the secularised Corn Market Church. Its name ...

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