After the original wooden doors were burned down in a fire, the new church doors were made with the text of the Ninety-Five Theses engraved in the bronze.
25 July 22: More photos from the Schlosskirche — Castle Church — and the Luther House Museum, both in Wittenberg (or Lutherstadt Wittenberg, which is the name I should have originally used to search for train routes and maybe it would have saved us 1/2 hour or so).
The Castle Church was open with shortened hours, and the Visitor Center and ability to climb up the tower were both closed today. Bummer.
The Luther House Museum is *amazing*, with a huge collection of artifacts from Martin Luther’s life, as well as several restored original rooms in the house, including the room where he held his “Table Talk” Bible interpretation discussions. We only could spend about 1:15 hours in the museum and there were a couple rooms left that we had to forego.
The train rides in both directions between Berlin Hbf and Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf were VERY warm, with high temperatures in the upper 90s. We ended up pretty slow as a result. But a line of thunderstorms is passing thru currently back here in Berlin and we look forward to highs in the mid 70s tomorrow!
Gotta love Luther Wifi….it was transmitting throughout the town but it didn’t work for us.The church underwent a huge renovation from 2011-2016, preparing for the 500th anniversary of the nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses in October 1517.Luther’s rose is EVERYWHERE! Martin Luther is buried in the church.Zoomed on the ceiling. Another Luther rose.It’s about 2/3 mile between the Schlosskirche and the Lutherhaus Museum…through the central part of the old city. It was a lovely…slow…walk in the heat.English services were only on Wednesdays through Saturdays. Oh well…it would have been amazing to get to see one of the services.This whole building ended up Luther’s house by the end of his life. I was surprised at how much material wealth he accumulated later in his life.The “Community Chest” from the early 1520s, after Luther proposed that all monetary donations to the Wittenberg church be placed in the chest and the residents would decide how to spend the money.The “Table Talks” room. Where Luther routinely hosted colleagues to debate theology.The first printed copy of Luther’s German translation of the Bible.
Mind. Blown. There were entire rooms filled with originals of his writings.Martin Luther is the most painted, etched, engraved, and minted individual in German history. The museum has quite the collection of originals of his likenesses.
