Katharina von Bora died at Torgau on December 20, 1552, after injuries suffered during an attempt to leave Wittenberg amid an outbreak of disease. Her final journey ended when the carriage was involved in an accident and she was badly injured. She survived for months but did not recover fully, so her death was not an immediate casualty at the roadside. The available tradition links the end with the accident without establishing the complete wound pattern, subsequent complications or every treatment attempted. Her last years had already been difficult after Martin Luther's death in 1546, as financial insecurity, war and displacement strained the household she had managed. Those circumstances explain why another flight became necessary, but they do not supply a separate medical diagnosis. She was cared for at Torgau, where she died at fifty-three and was buried in St. Mary's Church. A statement of faith is traditionally attributed to her deathbed, although its exact wording should be understood through the sources that transmitted it. The supported sequence is an attempted escape from epidemic danger, a serious carriage injury, prolonged incapacity and death after an unsuccessful recovery. Her own ending should remain distinct from the later deaths of her children and from the illness that killed her husband years earlier.