Description
Bad Karlshafen in northern Hessen has an impressive historic town centre built in the baroque style. Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel originally established the town in 1699 to provide a new home for Huguenot refugees from France and to support an economic upturn in the region.
Today, the German Huguenot Museum is dedicated to the history of these Reformed Christians. The exhibition tells of the Huguenots' suffering and persecution, their flight from their home country of France and their new beginnings in German territories.
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Stations of this Audioguide
- 1
- Who were the Huguenots?
- 2
- John Calvin and the Reformation in France
- 3
- The Temple de Charenton
- 4
- Reorganising the Reformed Church
- 5
- The Eight Huguenot Wars and the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
- 6
- Henry IV and the Edict of Nantes
- 7
- The Waldensians
- 8
- Bernard Palissy and his school
- 9
- Louis XIV and the Edict of Fontainebleau
- 10
- Cévennes Parlour
- 11
- The "Church of the Desert"
- 12
- Marie Durand
- 13
- The Flight of the Huguenots
- 14
- Reception Edicts for Huguenots in Germany
- 15
- Huguenot Sites in Germany
- 16
- The Berlin Sedan Chair
- 17
- The Mayence Festival in Kelze
- 18
- Huguenot Church Services
- 19
- The Huguenot Town of Bad Karlshafen
- 20
- Science and Art
- 21
- The Storyteller Dorothea Viehmann
- 22
- Crafts and Trades
- 23
- Huguenot Firms and Brands
- 24
- The Assimilation of the Huguenots
- 25
- The German Huguenot Society
- 100
- Bad Karlshafen / German Huguenot Museum
- 101
- Bad Karlshafen / German Huguenot Museum