The MPS has toured Germany every summer since 1994 under founder Gisbert Hiller, carrying its market, tournament arena, encampments and stages from stop to stop; the 2008 renaming to Mittelalterlich Phantasie Spectaculum signals that it is a fantastical world inspired by the Middle Ages, not a reconstruction. Luhmühlen is one of its three biggest fixed stops and the last big one of the season, held from Friday to Sunday on the first weekend of September: 4–6 September 2026, and 3–5 September 2027 as already published.
The ground at Westergellerser Heide 1, 21394 Westergellersen, is open heathland, which is why this stop has the character of a vast encampment: re-enactment and fantasy groups camp for the weekend among the market stalls of costumed traders and craftspeople, there are mounted and foot tournaments in the arena, falconry, fire shows, jugglers, bards and a children’s programme, and bands play on the stages. The market opens Friday 15:00–24:00, Saturday 11:00–24:00 and Sunday 11:00–19:00. Alcohol may not be brought onto the site, and the event uses its own Goldtaler currency.
2026 was the last season with the separate Musik-Arena and headline bands such as Saltatio Mortis, Versengold, Subway to Sally and Feuerschwanz. Hiller announced that the arena productions had become unaffordable and that from 2027 the MPS would concentrate on the market, tournaments, camps, street performers, bagpipe bands and smaller acts, and be cheaper and more family-oriented; Luhmühlen is one of the three stops he singled out as staying big.
Luhmühlen itself is a hamlet of the municipality of Salzhausen, best known for its international eventing course; its watermill on the Luhe is documented in 1427. Ticket prices for 2027 had not been published on the stop’s page when checked (Bückeburg’s two-day pass is €40 in advance, which is a reasonable guide). There is no railway station; Lüneburg, about 20 km east, is the nearest rail hub and the nearest medieval town.
