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Stadtkirche St. Marien

Address: Kirchpl., Wittenberg
Phone: 03491/404-415

Parish Church of St. Mary

Category: Religious Sites
Location: Lutherstadt-Wittenberg

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Fodor's Review:

From 1514 until his death in 1546, Martin Luther preached two sermons a week in the twin-tower Stadtkirche St. Marien (Parish Church of St. Mary) He and Katharina von Bora were married here (Luther broke with monasticism in 1525 and married the former nun). The altar triptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder includes a self-portrait, as well as portraits of Luther wearing the knight's disguise he adopted when hidden away at the Wartburg; Luther preaching; Luther's wife and one of his sons; Melanchthon; and Lucas Cranach the Younger. Also notable is the 1457 bronze baptismal font by Herman Vischer the Elder. On the church's southeast corner you'll find a discomforting juxtaposition of two Jewish-related monuments : a 1304 mocking caricature called the Jewish Pig, erected at the time of the expulsion of the town's Jews, and, on the cobblestone pavement, a contemporary memorial to the Jews who died at Auschwitz.

Cost: EUR 1.50, including tour
Open: May-Oct., daily 10-5; Nov.-Apr., daily 10-4

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