Audioguide

Welcome to the Melanchthon House in Bretten! Welcome to our Audioguide, complete with two hours of audio and 57 chapters. Be our guest: design your own personal tour.

  • Determine for yourself the highlights for your visit to the Museum, which was built on the site of Melanchthon’s birthplace. To help navigate the audioguide, we have arranged the chapters in four colours:

    Red, like the sandstone of the Melanchthon House: Here you will find information about the construction and collection of the Museum, plus information about its founder Nikolaus Müller.

    Blue, like the sky: These chapters concern theology, the Reformation, and the revival of the Church, in the coordinated work of Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther.

    Green, like hope: Here you will find information about the polymath Melanchthon, and about the Arts and Sciences at the beginning of the sixteenth century, which was greeted with such optimism by many humanists.

    Yellow indicates audio about the life of Melanchthon and his family.

    Get to know the Reformer from Bretten personally – with original quotations from his letters, speeches, and books. Whether you take a tour of the Museum, located on the Bretten Marketplace with its view of the Melanchthon House, or enjoy the audioguide at home, we wish you much enjoyment in your encounter with the world of Philipp Melanchthon, one of the exceptional personalities of the Reformation era.

    Cordially, the Melanchthon House Bretten


  • Melanchthon House
    In memory of Melanchthon!
    Nikolaus Müller opens the house
    Melanchthon House
    Late Gothic in red sandstone
    A monument to historicism
    Melanchthon House
    Four architects and a professor
    The construction history of the Melanchthon House
    Melanchthon House
    Gargoyles, mosaics and a university portal
    Architectural quotations
    Philipp Melanchthon
    Reuter-Schwartzerdt-Melanchthon
    The family of Bretten´s polymath
    Philipp Melanchthon
    Five coats of arms
    The life of Philipp Melanchthon
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    The knights’ hall of the Reformation
    The Memorial Hall
    Melanchthon House
    Sculpted in limestone
    Statues of reformers
    Reformation
    The raised snake
    Melanchthon’s seal
    Melanchthon House
    Christ, Peter and Paul
    The stained-glass windows in the choir
    Reformation
    Pioneer and gardener
    Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon in Wittenberg
    Reformation
    Wittenberg colleagues and companions
    Justus Jonas and Johannes Bugenhagen
    Reformation
    Reformers in the south-west
    Johannes Brenz and Martin Bucer
    Reformation
    Division or unity between churches?
    Philipp Melanchthon and John Calvin
    Melanchthon House
    Frescoes in gothic arches
    The murals by August Groh
    Philipp Melanchthon
    Debater at the fountain
    The child prodigy
    Reformation
    For the reform of the Church
    At the Diet of Augsburg of 1530
    Reformation
    For the unity of the Church
    The ecumenical significance of the Augsburg Confession
    Humanismus
    The opening of the High School
    The Teacher of Germany in Nuremberg
    Philipp Melanchthon
    The this-worldly and the heavenly homeland
    Philipp Melanchthon and Bretten
    Philipp Melanchthon
    At Melanchthon’s sickbed
    Martin Luther prays for his friend’s recovery
  • Reformation
    Coins and medals
    Melanchthon commemoration and anniversaries
    Melanchthon House
    A lonely warrior
    Nikolaus Müller
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    Cities, princes, humanists and theologians
    A panorama of the Reformation
    Humanismus
    The sky over Europe
    The horizon of Melanchthon’s correspondence
    Reformation
    To princes, kings and worried mothers
    Melanchthon writes
    Melanchthon House
    Testimonies to art and pious scholarship
    The collections of the Melanchthon House
    Reformation
    From the Wartburg to Wittenberg
    The creation of the September Testament
    Reformation
    Despite death and the devil
    The marriage of Luther to Katharina von Bora
    Humanismus
    Doctor and lion
    A Luther engraving by Lukas Cranach
    Humanismus
    A vast mind
    The Melanchthon engraving by Albrecht Dürer
  • Melanchthon House
    A Wittenberg world
    The Hall of Theologians
    Philipp Melanchthon
    Under stepped gables
    Melanchthon´s home
    Reformation
    At the Leucorea
    Theology in Wittenberg
    Reformation
    The diplomat in the background
    Georg Spalatin
    Reformation
    Luther with the hammer?
    The spread of the indulgence theses
    Reformation
    Subject to none and a servant of all
    On Christian Freedom
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    A guest of princes and kings
    The Hall of Princes
    Reformation
    Protectors of the Reformation
    The Electors of Saxony
    Reformation
    A Princes’ Reformation
    The new Church takes shape
    Reformation
    Basic concepts of the faith
    Loci Communes
    Humanismus
    From the beginning of the world to Emperor Charles V
    Carion’s Chronicle
    Reformation
    Revolt and obedience
    Melanchthon’s stance in the Peasants’ War
    Reformation
    Instructions for the Saxon Visitors
    Training for the ministry
    Reformation
    In everyday language
    The Luther Bible of 1534
    Reformation
    Advisor and arbitrator
    The “Praeceptor Germaniae” as a figure of authority
    Humanismus
    Looking into the soul and the stars
    Psychology and astronomy
    Philipp Melanchthon
    Sorrow and worry
    Melanchthon grows old
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    Green for hope
    The Hall of Humanists
    Humanismus
    Basic education for all
    The philosophy faculty
    Humanismus
    Teachers and role models
    Johannes Reuchlin and Erasmus of Rotterdam
    Philipp Melanchthon
    The best friend and a son-in-law
    Joachim Camerarius and Kaspar Peucer
    Philipp Melanchthon
    Last words
    Philipp Melanchthon in expectation of death
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    Three stained-glass windows
    Athens-Rome-Jerusalem
    Humanismus
    Athens
    The foundations of European philosophy and education
    Humanismus
    Rome
    The development of European law
    Reformation
    Jerusalem
    The origin of Judaeo-Christian revelation