The Luther City

Burt and I ready for our adventure

Surprise! I have another blog for you. I visited Lutherstadt Wittenberg, yes literally the Luther City of Wittenburg. I went on the weekend of April 26th to the 28th by myself. It was another great weekend, with lovely weather.



I arrived on Friday, but did not do much in town besides walk around a bit and go to Tourist Information center to figure out my plan for that Saturday. Sunday was just spent traveling on the German trains back to Marburg. What this blog will be about was my very long day spent exploring the old town of Wittenburg.

This map shows the route I followed I did not hit all the spots, but most of the locations. I will number all the pictures in according to this map so you can help understand where I went.

 

The first location I visited was the Luther House. I wanted to visit the museum the most out of any of the others in town so I did it first. The museum was a detailed look into Martin Luther’s life and work, including how he lived in Wittenburg. It was such a lovely museum with many original documents and objects. The best part was the a room that has been preserved since Luther’s time.

#13-Luther House

Burt is exicted

View from courthouse

A lecture stand used for debates with students

All following pictures are of this room

After this I went up the street hitting some of the buildings and stopping in front of the Old Town Hall to browse a market and get lunch. It was an amazing experience and there was a live woodwind trio playing classical music. Here are some of the stops on the trail as I made my way up to the Castle Church, where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses.

#12-Melanchthon House

#11-Old University

Courtyard of the Old Uni

#9- Old Court House with market

#10-Cranach Hof

#7-Cranach Hof part 2 the workshop

 

 

Statue of Cranach

View down the street

#5- William-Weber-House

The original door where Martin Luther nailed his theses to was damaged in a fire in the 1800s, and it has been replaced with metal doors with the theses on it. Inside the church is the grave of Martin Luther himself.

#3-Castle Church

The door with the these

Inside the courtyard

Looking towards the altar

Melanchthon's Grave

Luther's Grave

Pulpit

Altar

After the church I continued my wandering, enjoying the nice sunny day and good weather. There were a lot of sights to see.

#18-Catholic Church

#15-Burgen House

The next stop was the Wittenburg town museum, which unfortunately only had German captions, and none in English like some museums have. It was still nice to look at though and it was enjoyable and it gave me access to another museum which was an examination of the original rulers of the Wittenburg area in an old Abbey. The museum was styled as a crypt with tombs for each of the rulers, it was the burial location of a couple of the rulers. It was very pretty and touching, and I found it interesting. I ended up not taking pictures in those museums.

The last main stop was St. Mary’s church, where Luther preached. I could not take pictures inside the church, but it had some lovely views. This was my last major stop for the day so enjoy the view from the outside.

#16- St. Mary's Church

Overall this was a good enjoyable trip through this old city. This has been my favorite trip so far but I have a few more left! Thank you for following along with me!