Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Places researched in this city

A selection of the 14 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.

• Reformation churches
• Renaissance townhouses
• Historic squares
• Panoramic artwork
• Garden city architecture

• Castle Church (UNESCO)

  The bronze doors you see today are inscribed with all ninety-five Theses, replacing the original wooden door where Luther is said to have nailed his challenge to Rome on 31 October 1517. The Late Gothic tower stands 88 meters tall and contains the graves of both Luther and Frederick the Wise.

• Luther House & Augusteum (UNESCO)

  Luther lived in this former Augustinian monastery from 1508 until his death in 1546, and in 1532 the Electorate of Saxony simply gave him the building. The Augusteum, added in 1579, served as a university library and lecture hall, and both structures now form one of the most complete Reformation-era interiors in Germany.

• St. Mary's Town Church (UNESCO)

  The oldest building in Wittenberg, first documented in 1187, this is where Luther preached regularly from 1512 and where the very first Protestant service was held in 1521. The Reformation Altar painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder survives inside.

• Melanchthon House

  Elector John Frederick I spent 500 gulden building this Renaissance townhouse in 1536 specifically to persuade Philipp Melanchthon to stay in Wittenberg as a professor. The interior has remained largely unchanged since the sixteenth century, making it one of the best-preserved Reformation-era homes anywhere.

• Market Square

  The fountain at the center of this Renaissance square was first erected in 1524, then replaced in 1617 with the current version; four stones set into the pavement mark the spot where executions once took place in front of the Old Town Hall. The square still hosts the annual Luther Wedding festival each June.

• Asisi Panorama "LUTHER 1517"

  Artist Yadegar Asisi built a 360-degree painting 15 meters high and 75 meters in circumference that places you inside Wittenberg as it looked around 1517, complete with a cycling day-and-night light show and a dedicated soundtrack. It was created to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and depicts a full cross-section of society, from princes to peasants.

• Hundertwasser School (Luther-Melanchthon High School)

  What looks like a joyfully chaotic building of wavy facades, colorful ceramic tiles, and a grass-covered roof was, until the mid-1990s, a standard East German prefabricated concrete school block. Students themselves proposed the redesign, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser personally drew up the plans; it was his first project in the former East Germany, completed in 1999.