Lutherstadt Wittenberg

For our last class excursion, we traveled to Wittenberg on June 15th. As you may have noticed, we took our three day trip from the previous Wednesday-Friday, so we had only a one day break between them. We went to Wittenberg solely for their annual festival celebrating Martin Luther's wedding when he married a former nun, Katharina von Bora. This festival was incredible! Everyone was dressed in costumes from the 1500's, and the smells of delicious breads, sausages, creamy cheese covered mushrooms, and other period foods left us constantly hungry. We got to see people performing neat instruments and other people, like weavers and blacksmiths, performing tasks from that time period. There was a children's parade in the afternoon with a little Martin Luther and Katharina dressed up as bride and groom, though not in our typical wedding garb- it looked much different. We also played a fun little gamed called "Jack with Randos" where we took pics of Jack posed with random people. I will let you have a look below. Also we got to see the very doors where Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses!!! It's crazy to think that we were in the spot where someone changed Christian worship and church for all of us.

After the festival, we had the amazing opportunity to tour the house that Martin Luther lived in. Not only were there rooms that have managed to be maintained and left in mostly original condition, but there were tons of artifacts, translated Bibles, books from other famous Christian writers of the time, and original hymnals.

Here is a group of street performers we saw. It looked like four sisters. :)

Door of Castle Church in Wittenberg where Luther nailed 95 Theses against Catholic Church on October 31, 1517.

Blacksmith

Walking around the festival

Watching the parade

Inside Luther's living room, still in original condition

Ceilings from the 1500's

Also part of the living room. This is the same place where Luther held his famous "Table Talks"

The museum held tons of old books, including some of Luther's first translations of the Bible, his original hymn "A Mighty Fortress is our God," and it is where he originally wrote the 95 Theses.