Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Well, it looked close on the map, though it took us out of the way. We figured though, when would we be back in this area of Germany to do see Wittenberg again? So we went for it. We had a pleasant drive through Brandenburg, listening to Bach's first three Brandenburg Concertos and some third wave German Ska. The countryside was pretty, unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the pretty wooden churches we passed, which looked different than any other churches we've seen.

Then: Wittenberg, where Martin Luther taught, and challenged the Catholic Church with Ninety-Five Theses, inadvertently launching much more than the reformation he had expected.

Pictures are the before and after drive, and some shots of Wittenberg Altstadt, including the former Cranach workshop, now an apotheke.Read more