About an hour from Leipzig by car or 45 minutes by train, the hilltop town of Torgau is one of the major sites connected with Martin Luther and the Reformation.
It was the political center of the Reformation, where Luther wrote some of his most significant works. The first Protestant songbook was published here, and it was where the Protestant rulers signed the Torgau League of Princes.
The town is dominated by the early Renaissance Hartenfels Castle, and it was in its wing that the world's first Protestant church was built, according to Luther's ideas, and consecrated by him in 1544.
