Veranstaltung – Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Museum

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

Henkel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:24:11 +0000

Die Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gesellschaft e. V. und der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. zeigen ab dem 19. März 2026 die Ausstellung „Wege zum Frieden. Kriegsfolgen und Friedensprozesse“ in der Jahn-Ehrenhalle in Freyburg (Unstrut).
Anlass ist der Tag der Demokratiegeschichte, der am 18. März 2026 erstmals bundesweit unter der Schirmherrschaft von Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier stattfindet. Mit der Ausstellung folgt das Jahn-Museum dem Aufruf des Bundespräsidenten an die Orte der Demokratiegeschichte, sich an diesem Tag mit eigenen Veranstaltungen zu beteiligen.
Weitere Informationen unter: https://www.demokratie-geschichte.de/index.php/12842/18-maerz-tag-der-demokratiegeschichte-2026/
Seit 2019 ist das Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum in Freyburg (Unstrut) Teil der Initiative „Places of the history of democracy“. In dieser Funktion versteht sich das Museum nicht nur als Erinnerungsort an eine historische Persönlichkeit, sondern auch als Forum für die Auseinandersetzung mit demokratischen Entwicklungen, Brüchen und Herausforderungen. Demokratiegeschichte ist eng mit Fragen von Krieg, Gewalt, Friedensschlüssen und gesellschaftlicher Neuordnung verbunden – sie ist zugleich eine Geschichte des Ringens um Freiheit, Mitbestimmung und Rechtsstaatlichkeit.
Die vom Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. entwickelte Wanderausstellung greift diese Zusammenhänge auf. Angesichts zunehmender Instabilität und kriegerischer Konflikte in Europa und weltweit beleuchtet sie historische und aktuelle Friedensprozesse. Sie zeigt, welche Schritte, Voraussetzungen und gesellschaftlichen Kräfte notwendig sind, um aus Konflikten tragfähige Friedensordnungen zu entwickeln. Damit knüpft sie unmittelbar an die demokratiegeschichtliche Arbeit des Jahn-Museums an.
Als partizipativer Bestandteil der Veranstaltung findet am 18. März ein Peace-Monument-Workshop mit Schülerinnen und Schülern der Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sekundarschule Freyburg statt. Dabei gestalten die Jugendlichen sogenannte „Friedenskacheln“, die anschließend im Rahmen der Ausstellung präsentiert werden.
Ergänzt wird die Ausstellung durch sechs Tafeln aus der 2013 im Leipziger Stadtgeschichtlichen Museum gezeigten Ausstellung „Der weite Sprung. Die Sportlegenden Luz Long und Jesse Owens“. Sie thematisiert eine der bekanntesten Sportfreundschaften der Geschichte: die Begegnung des Deutschen Luz Long und des amerikanischen Athleten Jesse Owens bei den Olympischen Spielen 1936 in Berlin. In einer Zeit nationalsozialistischer Rassenideologie setzte Long mit seiner Fairness gegenüber Owens ein Zeichen für Menschlichkeit und sportliche Integrität. Long fiel 1943 im Krieg auf Sizilien.
Damit rückt zugleich die friedenstiftende Kraft des Sports in den Blick. Sportliche Begegnungen ermöglichen Verständigung über politische und kulturelle Grenzen hinweg und fördern Werte wie Fairness, Respekt und gegenseitige Anerkennung – Ideen die bis zu den Ursprüngen der von Friedrich Ludwig Jahn begründeten Turnbewegung zurückreichen und aufzeigen, dass Sport bis heute ein Beitrag zum Frieden leisten kann.

Die Ausstellung ist vom 19. März bis voraussichtlich 9. Mai 2026 zu sehen.

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

Opening hours:
Donnerstag und Freitag jeweils 10–16 Uhr
sowie jeden zweiten Samstag (21.03.; 04.04.; 18.04.; 02.05.; 09.05.) von 10–16 Uhr

Der Eintritt ist frei. Spenden zugunsten der neuen Dauerausstellung im Jahn-Museum sowie für den Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. sind willkommen.

Die Ausstellung ist dem im Januar unerwartet verstorbenen Landtagsabgeordneten Rüdiger Erben (1967–2026) gewidmet. Als Landesvorsitzender des Volksbundes Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. und langjähriger Unterstützer des Jahn-Museums hatte er die Ausstellung in der Jahn-Ehrenhalle anlässlich des Tages der Demokratiegeschichte initiiert.

Pressemitteilung als pdf zum Download

Ausstellungsplakat als pdf zum Download

Beneﬁz-Museumsﬂohmarkt im Jahn-Museum

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

Am Reformationstag (Freitag, den 31.10.2025) veranstaltet das Jahn-Museum in Freyburg zwischen 10-16 Uhr einen Beneﬁzﬂohmarkt. Im Museumsgarten können
Besucher nach Herzenslust stöbern, handeln und besondere Schätze entdecken. Auch Ausrangiertes aus dem Inventarbestand des Museums (u. a. Weihnachtsdeko) wird
angeboten.
Das Jahn-Museum lädt herzlich zum Mitmachen ein! Die Standgebühr (pro Stand 12,-€ + freiwillige Spende) geht zugunsten der Jahn-Gesellschaft e. V. Mit den
Spendeneinnahmen werden dringend benötigte Gelder für die Auslagerung und den Umzug des Museums in Vorbereitung auf die Sanierung gesammelt. Ab Januar 2026 wird
das Jahn-Museum für eine Generalsanierung geschlossen. Während dieser Zeit wird eine Interimsausstellung in der Jahn-Ehrenhalle eingerichtet. Alle Bürgerinnen und
Bürger aus Freyburg und der Region sind herzlich eingeladen sich zu beteiligen oder als Besucher nach Herzenslust zu stöbern.

Der Eintritt zum Flohmarkt und in das Museum ist an diesem Tag frei. Um Spenden wird gebeten. Anmeldungen bis 24.10.2025 per Mail an info@jahn-museum.de oder
telefonisch unter: 034464/27426. Der Standaufbau startet ab 8.00 Uhr. Tische sind in begrenztem Rahmen vorhanden. Das Mitbringen eigener Tische wird empfohlen. Bei
Schlechtwettervorhersage ﬁndet der Flohmarkt in der Ehrenhalle am Schützenplatz statt.

Wann: Freitag 31.10.2025, 10-16 Uhr

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

Flyer Museums-Flohmarkt zum 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

Websymposium „Des Reiches Stützen?“

Henkel — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:30:26 +0000

January 18, 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire. For this reason, the AG Orte der Demokratiegeschichte is organizing a nationwide series of events and providing resources to help assess the ambivalent role of the Kaiserreich in German history and for German democracy, as well as to heighten the sense of the complexity of the political system, society, and political culture of the Kaiserreich among the general public.

Together with the Saxony-Anhalt State Agency for Civic Education organizes the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society therefore on 23 January 2021, from 14:00 – 16:30, a web symposium entitled "Des Reiches Stützen? On the political and social role of gymnasts, singers and marksmen in the era of the foundation of the empire and in the empire (1860-1918)".

The conference will be broadcast on the Youtube channel of the State Agency for Civic Education. Interested parties can follow the event here free of charge and without prior registration. Participation is possible via comments and questions in the comments column of the channel.

The following link will take you directly to the channel of the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBhyiZtOuA

All information about the event series can be found in the thematic portal of the Places of the History of Democracy: https://www.demokratie-geschichte.de/extra/150jahre