Event Highlights 2024/2025

Freiheyt and Gerechtigkeyt 1525 – 500 Years Peasants' War in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt

In memory of the Peasants' War of 1525 and Thomas Müntzer, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt offer numerous events at authentic locations, on streets, squares, stages and in nature. Experience history at first hand and be inspired by the fight for freedom and justice.

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 – November 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 – November 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

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

Exhibition period: May 04 – October 26, 2025
Sondershausen Castle

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

Special themed exhibitions: August 17 - October 31, 2025
Regionalmuseum Bad Frankenhausen

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

Summer 2025
Allstedt Castle

“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.

Note: All events have been carefully researched, translated into English and are based on information provided by the tourism institutions, cities and regional tourism organisations in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. Thüringer Tourismus GmbH accepts no liability for the accuracy, completeness and currency of the information. All information is non-binding.
As of: August 19, 2025

Header picture: Kur- & Tourismus GmbH Bad Frankenhausen