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Lutherstadt Wittenberg - City of the Reformation
Visitors to Wittenberg still nowadays can feel the spirit of the
Reformation and Renaissance while walking through the city.
Usually this walk starts at the Castle Church with it´s
certainly most photographed door in Europe: The door, where
Dr. Martin Luther, in October 1517 made public his 95 Theses.
Inside the church there are both, Luther and Melanchthon,
the so called "Germany´s Teacher" burried.
More places of interest are, for example:
The house of the painter Lucas Cranach, the Elder.
The beautiful renaissance town hall from 1535 with its two
statues of Luther and Melanchthon in front of it.
The St. Mary´s City Church, the first reformed church
where Martin Luther usually preached.
The Melanchthon house from 1536.
The Augusteum, named after its sponsor, Elector August I.
In this Augusteum Luther had his seminar room and his library.
The Luther House, where he and his wife, Katharina von Bora,
and six children resided.
The entrance to this house, "Katharina's Portal", is surely the
most beautiful of the remaining Wittenberg house portals.
It is the largest museum for reformation history in the world.
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