Luther Trail Saxony-Anhalt

Signposts from the Luther Trail and European Long Distance Hiking Trail E11 on Sieglitzer Berg

The Luther Trail Saxony-Anhalt is a 410 km long pilgrimage route from Wittenberg via Eisleben to Mansfeld . The state project for the Luther Decade (2008-2017) serves to prepare the anniversary “500 years of Reformation” in 2017. On two routes with 34 stations such as the Paul Gerhardt Chapel in Graefenhainichen , the Wörlitzer Park , the Francke Foundations in Halle and the Dübener Heide commemorates the work of the reformer Martin Luther .

The entire route is marked with an "L" and was opened on March 28, 2008.

The initiative was initiated by the former Honorary Consul of Botswana , Wolf von Bila (1941–2012), who was able to win over the Protestant Church, tourism associations and the Mountain and Hiking Association of Saxony-Anhalt to support the project. The patronage is the former bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and former council chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany , Wolfgang Huber .

In 2009, the Lutherweg was awarded the National Prize for Integrated Urban Development and Building Culture by the Federal Ministry of Transport .

In August 2010 the governments of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt agreed to extend the Luther Trail in the direction of Saxony . By extending the existing route, Bad Düben , Eilenburg , Leipzig , Altenburg (with a connection to the Lutherweg in Thuringia ) and Zwickau became stations of the western branch. The eastern branch leads from Zwickau via Grimma and Torgau back to Wittenberg.

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Gerlach: On Luther's Paths. In: welt.de . October 30, 2008, accessed October 7, 2018 .
↑ StadtbauenStadtleben.de: Results> Designing cities better. Accessed December 9, 2011.
↑ Kirchenkreiskurier - The newspaper of the Evangelical Church District Torgau-Delitzsch, 11th year, No. 1 (February and March), Eilenburg 2011

Web links

Commons : Lutherweg Sachsen-Anhalt - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Lutherweg Saxony-Anhalt - travel guide

www.lutherweg.de
Lutherweg Saxony-Anhalt inaugurated . www.mdr.de, March 28, 2008 ( Memento from April 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Luther Trail in Saxony-Anhalt

[welt-2647964-1] Thomas Gerlach: On Luther's Paths. In: welt.de . October 30, 2008, accessed October 7, 2018 .

[2] StadtbauenStadtleben.de: Results> Designing cities better. Accessed December 9, 2011.

[3] Kirchenkreiskurier - The newspaper of the Evangelical Church District Torgau-Delitzsch, 11th year, No. 1 (February and March), Eilenburg 2011