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City of Reformation

Cultural tour to Luthertown Wittenberg:

„In the footsteps of the Great Reformer Martin Luther“

-> Why Luthertown Wittenberg

-> Highlights

-> Travel excursions and ideas

-> Arriving

Why you should travel to Luthertown Wittenberg:

- intrinsically linked with Martin Luther, who came to the town in 1511 to write his doctorate in theology
- home to the Castle Church to which Luther pinned his 95 theses
- features a range of intriguing sights such as Luther's House, Lucas Cranach Building, the historic marketplace and Melanchthon House
- boasts a large number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in close proximity to one another(Luthertown Wittenberg - Bauhaus Dessau - Garden Realm Dessau-Woerlitz)

Highlights in the Lutherstadt Wittenberg:

Travel excursions and ideas: 

Landscape/ Nature: Garden Realm Dessau-Woerlitz (UNESCO), Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve, Dübener Heide Nature Park, Fläming Nature Park, Jessener Heide, Schmetterlingspark

Architecture: Hundertwasser School, Bauhaus Dessau

Historic sites: Augusteum and Luther's House, Cranach Buildings, House of Melanchthon

Castles, parks and gardens: Klöden Castle, Hemsendorf Castle Park, Oranienbaum Palace and Palatial Garden, Bülzig Landscape Park, Goitzsche Landscape Park Pouch Pages

Railway culture: Depot in Luthertown Wittenberg

Industrial culture: Kupferhammer Thießen, Priesteritzer Werkssiedlung und Priesteritzer Hof, Automobile World Eisenach, Annaburg Porzellan, FERROPOLIS (Town made of iron near Gräfenhainichen), Industry- and Movie Museum Wolfen

Sacred buildings: Schlosskirche (Castle Church)

Christmas: Wittenberger Christmas Market on the market suqare and in the Adventshöfe, Martin Luthers Christmas Play near the Stadtkirche

Excursions from Wittenberg: guided tour through Jena with visit of the Parish Church of St Michael, visit of the city Schmalkalden (Luther and the Schmalkaldic League, visit of Weimar with the Stadtschloss (Town Castle) and the Cranach gallery and the Anna Amalia Library, musical town Leipzig, visit of the Garden Realm Dessau-Woerlitz (UNESCO), Eike-von-Repgow-Dorf Reppichau (open-air museum of the history of law), Visit to the Dessau Bauhaus, the modern Federal Environment Agency complex and the Masters’ Houses

Arriving:

	Leipzig/Halle Airport (approx. 85 miles) to Wittenberg (Connection via the A 4 & E 51)
	Via the A 4 motorway (Berlin-Munich)
	long-distance connections to major German cities, arrival into Wittenberg main station (city centre)

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