Dates of the Protestant Reformation in Selected German Cities (by region)

A) Franconia and central Germany in the 1520s

Town Preacher New Orders Dates
Crailsheim Adam Weiss Church ordinances 1526
Heilbronn   Reformation 1525-1532
Kitzingen   Poor Law ordinance 1523
    Preaching ordinance 1524
    Baptismal ordinance 1526
Nürnberg   Reformation 1523-1533
Reutlingen M. Alber German liturgy 1523-1524
Schwäbisch Hall Johannes Brenz Church ordinances 1526
Weissenburg   New order of service 1528
Windsheim   Common chest 1524
Rothenburg ob der Tauber   Church ordinances 1559
Schweinfurt   Church ordinances 1543

B) North Germany and the Baltic Coast

Town Dates of Major Changes
Bremen 1528
Braunschweig 1528
Celle 1526
Göttingen 1529-1532
Goslar 1528
Hamburg 1528
Hanover 1533-1534
Lübeck 1531
Münster 1531

C) Southern Germany and Switzerland

Town Preacher New Orders Dates
Strassburg/Strasbourg Wolfgang Capito, Caspar Hedio, Martin Bucer   1524-1534
Constance A. Blarer, J. Zwick Preaching ordinance 1524
    Abolition of the Mass 1528
    Church ordinance 1531-1534
Memmingen C. Schappeler, S. Schenk Preaching ordinance 1523-1524
Lindau T. Gassner Church ordinance 1525
Basel Johannes Oecolampadius Secularization of monasteries 1525
    Abolition of church festivals 1527
    Abolition of the Mass 1529
Mühlhausen/Mulhouse   Abolition of the Mass 1528-1529
    Church ordinances 1523; 1529-1529
Augsburg W. Musculus Abolition of the Mass 1537
    Church ordinances 1534-1537
Ulm K. Sam, M. Frecht School ordinance 1528
    New hymnal and psalter 1529
    Abolition of the Mass 1531
Biberach B. Millius Abolition of the Mass 1531
    Church ordinance 1531
Bern   Church ordinance 1528
    New ecclesiastical government 1532

Source: Euan Cameron, The European Reformation (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. 216-219.