Museum Mühlberg 1547
The Reformation was already in full swing when the New Provost's House was built in Mühlberg in 1531 on behalf of the Cistercian nunnery. As a result of the church renewal movement, the monastery was dissolved just eight years later.
Finally, in 1547, the Catholic army of Emperor Charles V and the troops of the Protestant Schmalkaldic League faced each other in a decisive battle near Mühlberg. The Catholics won, the leader of the Protestants, Elector Johann Friedrich of Saxony, was captured. This story is told in the museum "Mühlberg 1547", which is housed in the provost's place of the former Cistercian nunnery. With its large-format wall and ceiling paintings from the 16th century, the Provost's Office is itself the largest "exhibit".
The museum focuses on a media production that presents the Battle of Mühlberg from three different perspectives. The confessional, social and political debates as well as the afterlife and commemoration are shown in the exhibition. The various testimonies of faith, such as relics and figures of saints, can also be seen, as can illustrations and paintings illustrate the background and debates of the Reformation.
There is also a lot to tell about the history of the city: the beginnings of the city through the castle and palace, its development as a double city, its changing country affiliation, life on the river with handicrafts and floods and also the memory of the prisoner of war and special camp.
Due to the warlike event, Mühlberg became a historical place of remembrance with a European dimension. That is why Mühlberg is also one of the "Sites of the Reformation" that may bear the European Cultural Seal.
The museum is housed in a historic building, the Provost's Church of the former Cistercian nunnery. The numerous steps, door thresholds and different building levels in the exhibition rooms were designed with great effort in the form of custom-made mobile ramps, an electric platform lift and an elevator car as barrier-free as possible. In order to get from the ground floor to the upper exhibition levels, an elevator car can be used as an alternative to the staircase.
Accessibility by public transport: approx. 300 m (4 min) on foot from the Mühlberg bus station stop.
Bus lines 433 / 437 Riesa - Mühlberg/Elbe,
536 Falkenberg / Bad Liebenwerda - Kossdorf - Mühlberg/Elbe,
565 Bad Liebenwerda - Mühlberg/Elbe
Finally, in 1547, the Catholic army of Emperor Charles V and the troops of the Protestant Schmalkaldic League faced each other in a decisive battle near Mühlberg. The Catholics won, the leader of the Protestants, Elector Johann Friedrich of Saxony, was captured. This story is told in the museum "Mühlberg 1547", which is housed in the provost's place of the former Cistercian nunnery. With its large-format wall and ceiling paintings from the 16th century, the Provost's Office is itself the largest "exhibit".
The museum focuses on a media production that presents the Battle of Mühlberg from three different perspectives. The confessional, social and political debates as well as the afterlife and commemoration are shown in the exhibition. The various testimonies of faith, such as relics and figures of saints, can also be seen, as can illustrations and paintings illustrate the background and debates of the Reformation.
There is also a lot to tell about the history of the city: the beginnings of the city through the castle and palace, its development as a double city, its changing country affiliation, life on the river with handicrafts and floods and also the memory of the prisoner of war and special camp.
Due to the warlike event, Mühlberg became a historical place of remembrance with a European dimension. That is why Mühlberg is also one of the "Sites of the Reformation" that may bear the European Cultural Seal.
The museum is housed in a historic building, the Provost's Church of the former Cistercian nunnery. The numerous steps, door thresholds and different building levels in the exhibition rooms were designed with great effort in the form of custom-made mobile ramps, an electric platform lift and an elevator car as barrier-free as possible. In order to get from the ground floor to the upper exhibition levels, an elevator car can be used as an alternative to the staircase.
Accessibility by public transport: approx. 300 m (4 min) on foot from the Mühlberg bus station stop.
Bus lines 433 / 437 Riesa - Mühlberg/Elbe,
536 Falkenberg / Bad Liebenwerda - Kossdorf - Mühlberg/Elbe,
565 Bad Liebenwerda - Mühlberg/Elbe