In the city of Wittenberg, north-central Germany

 "You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."-- Martin Luther"

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(in north-central Germany) Wittenberg is a place of great historical significance for Christianity, because it was here that Martin Luther challenged the Catholic Church and sparked the Protestant Reformation. You can visit the Castle Church where he nailed his 95 theses, the Luther House where he lived and worked, and the Town Church where he preached and was married. You can also learn more about his colleagues and followers, such as Philipp Melanchthon and Lucas Cranach, at their respective houses and museums. Wittenberg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that preserves the legacy of the Reformation with in its architecture and culture.

+ Wittenberg lies on the Elbe River, southwest of Berlin. Chartered in 1293, it was the residence of the Ascanian dukes and electors of Saxony from 1212 until it passed, with electoral Saxony, to the house of Wettin in 1423. Wittenberg University, made famous by its teachers, the religious reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, was founded by the elector Frederick the Wise in 1502 and merged in 1817 with the University of Halle to form the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1547, when John Frederick the Magnanimous signed the Capitulation of Wittenberg, the electorate passed from the Ernestine to the Albertine line of the Wettins, and the town ceased to be the official residence. The city was occupied in 1806 by the French, who strengthened its fortifications in 1813; the fortress was stormed by the Prussians in 1814, and the city was assigned to them in 1815.

+ The Reformation started in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, when Luther may have nailed his famous 95 Theses to the wooden doors of the Castle Church. The doors were destroyed in a fire in 1760, and the church, containing the graves of Luther and the Reformers, was damaged then and again in 1813–14. The church has been restored, and the bronze doors of 1858 bear the Latin text of Luther’s Theses. Other notable buildings include the castle , the Town Hall, the residences of Melanchthon and Luther, and the town church, which houses an altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Elder, court painter to the Saxon electors and a town councillor and burgomaster (mayor) of Wittenberg. Various sites in Wittenberg associated with Luther (along with similar sites in Eisleben) were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996.
Wittenberg’s river harbor and position as a railway junction aided its industrialization.

+ Wittenberg is famous for its connection with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, for which it received the honorific Lutherstadt and is being called the "cradle of the Reformation" and "cradle of Protestantism." Several of Wittenberg's buildings are associated with the events, including a part of the Augustinian monastery in which Luther lived, first as a monk and later as owner with his wife Katharina von Bora and family.