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Home of Martin Luther
Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a town in Germany in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, at the Elbe River. It has a population of about 50,000. The importance of Wittenberg is due to its close connection with Martin Luther and the dawn of the Reformation; several of its buildings are associated with the events of this time. Part of the Augustinian monastery in which Luther dwelt, first as a monk and later as owner with his wife and family, is preserved and considered to be the world's premier museum dedicated to Luther.
Wittenberg is home to numerous important historical artifacts, as well as portraits and other paintings by the Cranachs. All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche ("castle church"), to the doors of which Luther is said to have nailed his famous 95 theses in 1517, dates from 1439–1499. Inside the church are the tombs of Luther and Philipp Melanchthon
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