Welcome to the town of Renaissance and Reformation

with its thousand-year-old yet vivid history. Did you know that Germany’s most prominent and still well preserved castle of the early Renaissance can be found in Torgau? Did you know that the first Protestant church was built here according to the ideas of Martin Luther and was personally consecrated by him? Did you know that Luther’s wife died in Torgau and was buried in the Marienkirche? Let Torgau surprise you.