Veranstaltung – Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Museum

Lesung im Weingut Grober-Feetz: Das „wilde erste Jahr ohne Mauer“

Henkel — Sat, Jul 25, 2026 7:18:51 PM UTC

The Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum Freyburg and the Weingut Grober-Feetz Winery loaded at October 10, 2026, at 7 PM to a special community event. In the atmospheric setting of the wine tavern in the historic mill building, journalist and author Reinhard Bohse will read from his current book „The Wild First Year Without a Wall – Historical Report II – 1990“. The evening will be accompanied musically by the trio of SUM 11 Jazzgesellschaft Leipzig.

Reinhard Bohse turns his gaze to the year 1990 and acknowledges the often underestimated role of East Germans in the democratic reshaping of Germany after the Peaceful Revolution. His fact-based report impressively demonstrates how the people in East Germany paved the way for German unity, initiated far-reaching societal changes with the first free elections, and thus shaped their own history.

The event also connects to a central theme of the Jahn Museum. As a place of democratic history, the museum deals with the historical freedom and democracy movements of the 19th century, especially with the ideas of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and their influence on the development of democratic thought in Germany. Against this backdrop, the reading also opens up a view of a later era of German democratic history: the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 and the democratic awakening of 1990. Both eras are united by people's striving for freedom, political participation, and social equality. The reading invites us to trace the historical events of the turning point and to discuss their significance for our present.

Admission is free. The event is being held jointly by the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Museum and the Grober-Feetz winery as part of the Literary festivals KUMBRA - Autumn of Literature aligned. Visitors can look forward to an inspiring evening with literature, music, and good conversation.

October 10, 2026
Location: Weingut Grober-Feetz, Mühlstraße 32, 06632 Freyburg
Time: 7 PM

Ausstellung „Wege zum Frieden. Kriegsfolgen und Friedensprozesse“ in der Jahn-Ehrenhalle in Freyburg ab 19. März 2026

Henkel — Tue, Mar 10, 2026 07:24:11 AM PST

The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gesellschaft e. V. and the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. are showing from March 19, 2026 Exhibition „Paths to Peace: Consequences of War and Peace Processes“ in the Jahn Hall of Honor in Freyburg (Unstrut).
The occasion is the Democracy History Day, who at March 18, 2026 for the first time nationwide under the patronage of the Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier takes place. With the exhibition, the Jahn Museum follows the call of the Federal President to the places of democratic history to participate in this day with their own events.
More information at: https://www.demokratie-geschichte.de/index.php/12842/18-maerz-tag-der-demokratiegeschichte-2026/
Since 2019, the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum in Freyburg (Unstrut) part of the initiative „Places of the history of democracy“In this capacity, the museum sees itself not only as a memorial to a historical figure, but also as a forum for engaging with democratic developments, ruptures, and challenges. The history of democracy is closely linked to questions of war, violence, peace treaties, and societal restructuring – it is also a history of the struggle for freedom, participation, and the rule of law.
The by the People's Association for German War Graves. The developed traveling exhibition addresses these connections. In light of increasing instability and armed conflicts in Europe and worldwide, it illuminates historical and current peace processes. It shows which steps, prerequisites, and societal forces are necessary to develop sustainable peace orders from conflicts. In doing so, it directly builds upon the democratic history work of the Jahn Museum.
As a participatory component of the event, on March 18th a Peace Monument Workshop with students from the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Secondary School Freyburg. The young people create so-called „peace tiles,“ which are then presented as part of the exhibition.
The exhibition is supplemented by six panels from the exhibition „Exhibition Name" shown in 2013 at the Leipzig Museum of City History.„The Great Leap. Sports Legends Luz Long and Jesse Owens“It addresses one of the most famous sports friendships in history: the encounter between Germany's Luz Long and American athlete Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In an era of National Socialist racial ideology, Long's fairness towards Owens set an example of humanity and athletic integrity. Long died in the war in Sicily in 1943.
This also highlights the peacemaking power of sports. Sporting encounters facilitate understanding across political and cultural boundaries and promote values such as fairness, respect, and mutual recognition – ideas that go back to the origins of the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn demonstrate the substantiated turn toward sport and show that sport can still contribute to peace today.

The exhibition is from March 19 to an estimated May 9, 2026 to see.

Ort:
Jahn-Ehrenhalle
Schützenstraße 17
06632 Freyburg (Unstrut)

Opening hours:
Thursday and Friday, 10 AM - 4 PM
as well as every second Saturday (March 21st; April 4th; April 18th; May 2nd; May 9th) from 10 AM to 4 PM

Admission is free. Donations for the new permanent exhibition at the Jahn Museum and for the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (German War Graves Commission) are welcome.

The exhibition is dedicated to the Member of Parliament who unexpectedly passed away in January Rüdiger Erben (1967–2026) dedicated. As state chairman of the People's Association for War Grave Care and a long-time supporter of the Jahn Museum, he had initiated the exhibition in the Jahn Hall of Honor on the occasion of the Day of Democratic History.

Press release as PDF for download

Exhibition poster as a PDF for download

Beneﬁz-Museumsﬂohmarkt im Jahn-Museum

Henkel — Tue, Sep 30, 2025 20:07:41 +0000

I Reformation Day (Friday, October 31, 2025) The Jahn Museum in Freyburg holds a Flea market. In the museum garden, you can
Visitors can browse, trade, and discover special treasures to their heart's content. Discarded items from the museum's inventory (including Christmas decorations) will also be available.
offered.
The Jahn Museum invites you to participate! The booth fee (€12 per booth + voluntary donation) will benefit the Jahn Society e. V. With the
Donations are being raised to collect much-needed funds for the museum's relocation and move in preparation for renovations. Starting January 2026,
The Jahn Museum is closed for a general renovation. During this time, a temporary exhibition will be set up in the Jahn Hall of Honor. All citizens
Residents from Freyburg and the surrounding region are warmly invited to participate or browse to their heart's content as visitors.

Admission to the flea market and the museum is free on this day. Donations are appreciated. Registration by 10/24/2025 via email to info@jahn-museum.de or
by phone at: 034464/27426. Stand setup begins at 8:00 AM. Tables are available on a limited basis. Bringing your own table is recommended. For
In case of bad weather, the flea market will take place in the Ehrenhalle at the Schützenplatz.

When: Friday, October 31, 2025, 10 AM - 4 PM

Where: Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Museum Freyburg, Schloßstraße 11, 06632 Freyburg

Museum Flea Market Flyer for Download (jpg)

Informationsveranstaltung zum Tag der Städtebauförderung

Henkel — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:37:08 +0000

On Saturday, May 10, 2025, an information event will be held at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Museum Freyburg as part of the nationwide Urban Development Day (www.tag-der-staedtebaufoerderung.de). Between 2 and 4 p.m., interested members of the public can find out about the extensive construction project to redesign and extend the museum. Representatives of the town of Freyburg as the client will provide information on the status of the plans. The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gesellschaft e. V. as the operator of the Jahn Museum cordially invites all interested parties and all citizens of the town of Freyburg to take a look behind the scenes of the museum.

The Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum will be extensively renovated and expanded from 2026 to 2028 with the support of the town of Freyburg, the Burgenland district and the state of Saxony-Anhalt. As part of the renovation of the residential building, the permanent exhibition, which is over 20 years old, will also be redesigned according to current scientific, historical and didactic exhibition findings. The information event offers the opportunity to view the current conditions on site and to find out what will change and improve in the course of the construction project. There will also be an opportunity to talk to the new managing director and museum director, Dr. Norma Henkel.

The event is free of charge. Pre-registration is not necessary. There is no admission charge to the museum between 2pm and 4pm.

When: Saturday, 10.05.2025, 14-16 o'clock

Where: Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Museum Freyburg, Schloßstraße 11, 06632 Freyburg

Poster for the Day of Urban Development in pdf format.

Symposium des Deutschen Turner-Bundes

jahn-buero — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:14:03 +0000

On 16 and 17 November 2023, the German Gymnastics Federation is organizing a symposium to mark the founding of the DTB 175 years ago in Hanau.

All further information on the event can be found in the flyer here.

Theaterspaziergänge 2023 führen durch Jahn-Gedenkstätten

Henkel — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:57:22 +0000

"Fresh, free, cheerful and pious - is the gymnast's wealth."

Who was actually the so-called "Turnvater Jahn"? How did he come to Freyburg? Why is the town of Freyburg the Mecca of the gymnastics movement and not the Hasenheide in Berlin?

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was obsessed with German unity; for him, gymnastics was not simply gymnastics, but a politically social movement. Jahn risked everything for the dream of German unity. The consequences were a ban on gymnastics, imprisonment and banishment.

Experience the secret of the gymnastics father at selected places in Freyburg. We will start together with you in front of the Memorial Gymnastics Hall in Oberstraße 9, which was inaugurated in 1894.

Play dates: Sat 29 April / Thu 4 / Fri 5 / Sat 6 / Thu 11 / Fri 12 / Sat 13 / Fri 19 / Sat 20 /
Thu 25 / Fri 26 / Sat 27 May each at 8.30 p.m.

Attention: The premiere is already sold out, but there are still remaining tickets for April 29! Start is at 20:30, sturdy shoes are advisable when it goes on the road!

Cards are available in the Theater Naumburg available:

Tönende Lebensansichten des Kater Murr

Henkel — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:21:02 +0000

Concert & reading with culinary delights

The Jahn Museum, Eatbar 51Grad and the Freyburg Winegrowers' Association are hosting a cultural experience in a class of its own.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of E.T.A. Hoffmann's death, the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum together with the Eatbar 51 degrees and the Winzervereinigung Freyburg, on November 19, 2022, in the Anisium Freyburg, a musical-literary evening with culinary accompaniment under the title: "Tönende Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr" (Beautiful Views of the Life of Murr the Cat)

The collaboration was initiated by Thomas Fritzsch, an Echo-Klassik prize winner who lives in Freyburg, and the Jahn Society. Both have independently dealt with Hoffmann's whimsical tomcat - one musically, the other historically. "We've looked a little more closely at Hoffmann this year, because when Jahn is arrested for demagogic activities in 1819, his life path crosses that of arguably the greatest multi-talent of German Romanticism."says the director of the Jahn Museum, Manuela Dietz.

When E.T.A. Hoffman, born in Königsberg in 1776, was writing "Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr," he was appointed to investigate the demagogue trial of the "Turnvater" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. The appointment to the "Königliche Immediat-Untersuchungskommission," which ultimately resulted from the political upheavals and the "Karlsbad Resolutions" of 1819, was an important station in Hoffman's legal career. He incorporated the experiences and adventures of the demagogue persecutions into his novel and the subsequent work "Meister Floh". The legal profession, however, was more a means of earning a living than a passion. Hoffmann's heart belonged to the fine arts. Thus he confessed: "On weekdays I am a lawyer and at most a bit of a musician, on Sundays I draw during the day and in the evenings I am a very witty writer until late at night..., [but] music is the most romantic of all arts."

Hoffmann's piano and composition teacher was the Königsberg cathedral organist Christian Wilhelm Podbielski, an original and bizarre figure whom he portrays in the "Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr" as Master Abraham Liscov. As can be read in Robert Schumann's Leipzig Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1840, Podbielski was "also quite exquisitely virtuoso on the viola di gamba, the instrument with which Echo Classic Prize winner Thomas Fritzsch achieved musical world fame. Among other works, he will perform a viola da gamba composition by Podbielski. His viola da gamba, built in 1784 in Breslau, proves to be a witty, graceful, gallant and characterful entertainer, with which Fritzsch turns the audience into contemporary witnesses of that lost world. He is accompanied by Gewandhaus organist Michael beauty on a pianoforte by John Broadwood, which was built in London in 1805.

The musical performances will be framed by Axel Thielmannwho, in readings from the novel, lends his voice to Master Liscov and his cat Murr.

So that the whole thing is not only a feast for the ears but also for the palate, the Eatbar 51 degrees the guests with a 3-course menu. The matching wines provides the Freyburg Winegrowers Associationin whose anisium the cultural spectacle of the extra class takes place.

Tickets for the event can be purchased now at the Jahn Museum.

Admission including a 3-course menu with a matching wine for each course amounts to 149.00 euros per person.

It pays to be quick, as the event is limited to 80 guests.

Jahns Patensohn Meffert

jahn-buero — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:23:11 +0000

Lecture with musical accompaniment

As part of this year's Jahnturnfest, the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gesellschaft e.V., in cooperation with the Freyburg parish office as well as the Berlin church music director and organist of the Marienkirche in Berlin, Kilian Nauhaus, and the world-renowned gambist and Echo-Klassik prize winner, Thomas Fritzsch, will host a musical lecture evening entitled:

"He did right and spared no one" -Jahn's godson Franz Ludwig Meffert and his family.

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's friends from his Kolberg days in the early 1820s included the master craftsman Ferdinand Meffert and his wife Emilie. In 1835, Jahn became godfather to their second child, son Franz Ludwig. Jahn's letters to the Meffert family, most of which have survived, are an important source for Jahn research today.

Franz Meffert became a teacher, worked as a high school principal in Breslau, was politically active, published several writings and died in Berlin in 1910. The Berlin church music director Kilian Nauhaus, a great-great-grandson of Franz Meffert, will tell about the family friendship between Mefferts and Jahns and draw a life picture of his ancestor Franz Meffert on the basis of letters and documents that are in the surviving family possession. The Freyburg gambist Thomas Fritzsch, cultural ambassador of the city of Köthen and special ambassador of the Burgenlandkreis, with whom Kilian Nauhaus has a long-standing musical collaboration, will provide the musical framework for the evening.

Franz Meffert's contemporaries had the following inscription placed on his grave in Jena, which is still preserved today: "He did right and spared no one". This is the motto of our evening, with which we want to commemorate this striking figure from Jahn's circle.

The event will take place on Friday, August 19, 2022, at 8:00 p.m.

Held in the Freyburg church of St. Mary.

Admission begins at 19:50.

Admission is free of charge.

Kilian Nauhaus

Gambist Thomas Fritzsch played his viola da gamba by Johann Casper Göbler, Breslau, 1784 on June 19, 2014 at the Bachmuseum Leipzig Thomaskirchhof next to the display case with the letter from 1787 and sheet music cover page in the display case.
Photo: Armin Kühne ( Kuehne )

„Die kalten Ringe – 1964 gesamtdeutsch nach Tokio.“

Henkel — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:23:45 +0000

In 2021, the Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo for the first time since 1964. On the occasion of this not only sportive but also medial major event and the fact that this year also the 60th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall in Germany. the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Museum together with the Centre for German Sports History and in cooperation with the Rotkäppchen-Mumm sparkling wine cellar and the State Agency for Civic Education Saxony-Anhalt, on September 09, 2021, under the title "The Cold Rings -1964 All-German to Tokyo", a theme evening, in the atrium of the Rotkäppchen sparkling wine cellar Freyburg. Together with former athletes of the German-German Olympic team of 1964, the visitors first watch the documentary film "The Cold Rings" and then have the opportunity to exchange views with contemporary witnesses during a panel discussion..

The event will start at 6:00 pm.

Admission is free of charge.

The documentary film "The Cold Rings" is intended to commemorate the special, Germany's divided history. As good as lost in the memory of society is the fact that for the 1964 Games in Tokyo an all-German team had to compete for the last time. Already in 1956 and 1960, the Germans in East and West had to form a joint team under duress from the IOC. IOC President Avery Brundage had the vision that political borders could be overcome with the power of sport. But with the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the reality of the Cold War caught up with previous Olympic practices. Three years after the construction of the Wall, inner-German sporting relations had almost come to a complete standstill by 1964. The renewed formation of an all-German team seemed impossible. Against the will of the two German states, elimination matches had to take place in East and West. The political players were manifold; the Federal Government and the Central Committee of the SED were involved. Sport became a plaything of politics. There were arguments about flags, jerseys and anthems, about the competition venue in West Berlin or about GDR athletes who had fled and now wanted to take part in the competitions wearing the jersey of the Federal Republic. The composition of the Olympic team alone became a political issue. The political division of Germany was now also more than visible in sport.

The film project "The Cold Rings" brings an exciting piece of history from the age of the East-West conflict and German division back into the discussion about sports and politics. Until now, there has been no film documentary on this topic and only a few journalistic publications. Therefore, the sports historian Dr. Rene Wiese and the documentary filmmaker Thomas Grimm have joined forces to create the first cinematic reappraisal of the last joint German Olympic teams.

Contact Registration:

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum

Castle street 11, 06632 Freyburg (Unstrut)

Tel.: 034464-27426

Mail: buero@jahn-museum.de

It is advisable to register as soon as possible, as only a limited number of participants will be admitted due to the implementation of the hygiene concept.

Jahnturnfest 2021 abgesagt!

Henkel — Sun, 23 May 2021 12:45:12 +0000

Due to the Corona pandemic, no Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Gymnastics Festival will take place in Freyburg (Unstrut) in 2021. The decision was announced by the Landesturnverband Sachsen-Anhalt and the city of Freyburg last week. Up to the present time a training in the halls for the preparation is definitely not or hardly possible nationwide until 30.06.. In the sense of the health of the participants this decision was therefore made. The risk of injuries due to the lack of training facilities is simply too great. Also, it is currently not foreseeable which overnight accommodation in Freyburg and the surrounding area can be available at the end of August.

The complete press release of the LTV_S/A can be found here: https://www.landesturnverband-sachsen-anhalt.de/post/98-friedrich-ludwig-jahn-turnfest-2021-abgesagt