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Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Lutherstadt Wittenberg is located along the Elbe River, east of Dessau, in Deutschland (Germany). Several buildings are part of a World Heritage Site honoring the life of the innaugurator of the Protestant branch of Christianity: Martin's Luther's room, the church where he posted his theses, and the house of his colloborator, Philipp Melanchthon.1 Today's city has less than 50 thousand people.2

External references

The Schlosskirche (Castle Church) in Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Footnotes

1. World Heritage Sites (Unesco and Firefly Books, 2009).
2. 2010 calculation in world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/8/2011.