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Germany Tour with Pastor Richard Webb - April 2025
A Pilgrimage in the Steps of Martin Luther
We want to invite you on an unforgettable journey into Germany, filled with history, culture, and spiritual blessings. We’ll visit places that witnessed events of decisive and enduring importance in the history of humanity.
This journey will provide you a deeper understanding of the scriptures as you travel through Germany. You’ll get a closer look at the life of Martin Luther and his mission of faith. When you make this journey in the company of friends and others of like mind, you can look forward to an unforgettable experience.
Join us on this all-inclusive “Martin Luther” Germany tour! Martin Luther put his 95 Theses on the Wittenberg door (castle which became the All Saints Church), saying “The just shall live by FAITH.” From Frankfurt to Berlin, you will appreciate the ones who taught us our theology that we live by.
At the end of this tour, two things will most certainly be changed: you, and your faith.
Sincerely,
Pastor Richard Webb
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Our tours are all-inclusive. Always.
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Wednesday
Rhine River Cruise, Mainz, WormsOur journey begins with a relaxing sightseeing cruise along the Rhine River, one of the most picturesque stretches of this majestic waterway. We sail past magnificent castles and the famous Loreley rock. We continue to Mainz: We visit the birthplace of printing, the Gutenberg Museum: the evolution of printing is documented, and Gutenberg’s first Bible is on display, also the world‘s tiniest Bible. Jon Gooseflesh, better known as Johannes Gutenberg is considered to be the most important individual contributor of the Second Millennium. Then we tour St. Martin’s Cathedral, built in the 8th century and towering in all its might and grandeur the city. Seven king’s coronations took place in the course of the centuries in the Mainz cathedral. Then on to Worms for overnight and dinner.
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Thursday
Worms, Speyer, HeidelbergWorms: thought to be one of the oldest towns in Germany, where Luther was summoned in 1521 to appear before an Imperial Diet to justify his conduct. We visit the world’s largest Memorial to the Reformation
and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Europe’s oldest Jewish cemetery, the Holy Sands and St. Peter’s Cathedral, located on the highest elevation of the inner city and one of the most exquisite examples of Romanesque architecture. We board the coach for Speyer and visit the Cathedral, the biggest historic architectural monument of its time and burial place of the Salian emperors. It is supposed to be the masterpiece of Romanesque architecture in Germany. We continue to the ruins of the Speyer synagogue which are the oldest visible remains of a synagogue in Central Europe and the Mikwe, established in 1104. In the Middle Ages the rabbis of Speyer, along with their colleagues from Mainz and Worms were already counted among the religious authorities in all middle Europe. Then on to Heidelberg, a gorgeous town on the Neckar River, where romanticism is both past and present. Our walking tour includes the Old Town, the famous Stone Bridge over the Neckar River, the Heidelberg Castle (where the Heidelberg Confession was written in 1653), the Castle Church, German Apothecary Museum, and the Church of the Holy Ghost. We return to our hotel.
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Friday
Worms, Eisenach, ErfurtFollowing breakfast we drive into Lutherland to Eisenach and Wartburg Castle: We tour the Palas (Great Hall), Art exhibition, the Elizabeth Hallway and the Luther Room where “Junker Jörg” (the Knight George) translated the New Testament into German. Then on to St. George’s Church where Saint Elisabeth was married and J.S. Bach baptized, Luther House where Luther lived as a student with the Cotta family from 1498-1501. We board the coach for our drive to Erfurt for overnight and dinner.
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Saturday
Erfurt, Eisleben, LeipzigThis morning we explore Erfurt and visit the Augustinian Monastery with its famous dome and stained-glass window choir: Luther, student of law, entered as a novice in 1505 and took his vows as a monk in 1507. We tour the city with Fish Market, Town hall and Merchant’s Bridge, Merchant’s Church and the Luther Memorial. Then on to Eisleben, where Luther was born in 1483 and died in 1546. We visit the St. Andrew’s Church (Luther held his last sermons here) and Luther’s “Death House” (closed for construction works until spring 2012), walk across the Market Square through the old town to his “Birth House” and to the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, where Luther was baptized. We continue to Leipzig for overnight and dinner:
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Sunday
Leipzig, WittenbergIn the morning we tour the city on foot highlighting the Opera House, Gewandhaus Concert Hall, Moritzbastei, St. Nicolaus Church, Naschmarkt and Goethe Memorial, St. Thomas Church where J.S. Bach worked and now rests, and the Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Monument of the battle of the Nations). After lunch on our own we proceed for Wittenberg, the main workplace of Martin Luther from 1508. We visit Luther Hall, formerly an Augustinian monastery and from 1525 domicile of Luther’s familyand nowadays the largest Reformation history museum in the world. We also visit the “Schlosskirche” (all Saints Church) where Luther posted his 95 theses on the Castle Church doors sparking the beginning of the Reformation and sepulcher of Luther and his fellow reformer Philipp Melanchthon, tour St. Mary’s Church where Luther did the majority of his preaching and visit the Melanchthon House, renovated for the 500th anniversary of his birth and offering a rare look into the life and works of this important humanist and reformer. We check in to our hotel for overnight and dinner.
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Monday
Potsdam, BerlinOn the way to Berlin we stop in Potsdam and tour Sansouci Palace and Park, built by Frederick of Prussia in 1745. Upon arrival in Berlin we explore the city on a sightseeing tour by bus featuring Charlottenburg Palace (from outside), the Reichstag (Parliament), the Brandenburger Tor, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the boulevard Kurfürstendamm (Kudammm), the refurbished city center, Gendarmenmarkt, Alexanderplatz, Pariser Platz, the famous boulevard “Unter den Linden,” the Berlin Cathedral, visit the Berlin Wall Museum, and the infamous Checkpoint Charlie. We check in to our hotel for overnight and dinner.
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