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.
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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
- Façade
Melanchthon HouseIn memory of Melanchthon!
Nikolaus Müller opens the houseMelanchthon HouseLate Gothic in red sandstone
A monument to historicismMelanchthon HouseFour architects and a professor
The construction history of the Melanchthon HouseMelanchthon HouseGargoyles, mosaics and a university portal
Architectural quotationsPhilipp MelanchthonReuter-Schwartzerdt-Melanchthon
The family of Bretten´s polymathPhilipp MelanchthonFive coats of arms
The life of Philipp Melanchthon
- Memorial Hall
Melanchthon HouseThe knights’ hall of the Reformation
The Memorial HallMelanchthon HouseSculpted in limestone
Statues of reformersReformationThe raised snake
Melanchthon’s sealMelanchthon HouseChrist, Peter and Paul
The stained-glass windows in the choirReformationPioneer and gardener
Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon in WittenbergReformationWittenberg colleagues and companions
Justus Jonas and Johannes BugenhagenReformationReformers in the south-west
Johannes Brenz and Martin BucerReformationDivision or unity between churches?
Philipp Melanchthon and John CalvinMelanchthon HouseFrescoes in gothic arches
The murals by August GrohPhilipp MelanchthonDebater at the fountain
The child prodigyReformationFor the reform of the Church
At the Diet of Augsburg of 1530ReformationFor the unity of the Church
The ecumenical significance of the Augsburg ConfessionHumanismusThe opening of the High School
The Teacher of Germany in NurembergPhilipp MelanchthonThe this-worldly and the heavenly homeland
Philipp Melanchthon and BrettenPhilipp MelanchthonAt Melanchthon’s sickbed
Martin Luther prays for his friend’s recovery
- Staircase
ReformationCoins and medals
Melanchthon commemoration and anniversariesMelanchthon HouseA lonely warrior
Nikolaus Müller
- Hall of Cities
Melanchthon HouseCities, princes, humanists and theologians
A panorama of the ReformationHumanismusThe sky over Europe
The horizon of Melanchthon’s correspondenceReformationTo princes, kings and worried mothers
Melanchthon writesMelanchthon HouseTestimonies to art and pious scholarship
The collections of the Melanchthon HouseReformationFrom the Wartburg to Wittenberg
The creation of the September TestamentReformationDespite death and the devil
The marriage of Luther to Katharina von BoraHumanismusDoctor and lion
A Luther engraving by Lukas CranachHumanismusA vast mind
The Melanchthon engraving by Albrecht Dürer
- Hall of Theologians
Melanchthon HouseA Wittenberg world
The Hall of TheologiansPhilipp MelanchthonUnder stepped gables
Melanchthon´s homeReformationAt the Leucorea
Theology in WittenbergReformationThe diplomat in the background
Georg SpalatinReformationLuther with the hammer?
The spread of the indulgence thesesReformationSubject to none and a servant of all
On Christian Freedom
- Hall of Princes
Melanchthon HouseA guest of princes and kings
The Hall of PrincesReformationProtectors of the Reformation
The Electors of SaxonyReformationA Princes’ Reformation
The new Church takes shapeReformationBasic concepts of the faith
Loci CommunesHumanismusFrom the beginning of the world to Emperor Charles V
Carion’s ChronicleReformationRevolt and obedience
Melanchthon’s stance in the Peasants’ WarReformationInstructions for the Saxon Visitors
Training for the ministryReformationIn everyday language
The Luther Bible of 1534ReformationAdvisor and arbitrator
The “Praeceptor Germaniae” as a figure of authorityHumanismusLooking into the soul and the stars
Psychology and astronomyPhilipp MelanchthonSorrow and worry
Melanchthon grows old
- Hall of Humanists
Melanchthon HouseGreen for hope
The Hall of HumanistsHumanismusBasic education for all
The philosophy facultyHumanismusTeachers and role models
Johannes Reuchlin and Erasmus of RotterdamPhilipp MelanchthonThe best friend and a son-in-law
Joachim Camerarius and Kaspar PeucerPhilipp MelanchthonLast words
Philipp Melanchthon in expectation of death
- The cultural pillars of Europe
Melanchthon HouseThree stained-glass windows
Athens-Rome-JerusalemHumanismusAthens
The foundations of European philosophy and educationHumanismusRome
The development of European lawReformationJerusalem
The origin of Judaeo-Christian revelation