On our way back from Leipzig to Berlin we passed by Lutherstadt Wittenberg, in Sachsen-Anhalt. It's a very beautiful cute small town with a historic old town including many historic buildings. There has been a close connection with Martin Luther and the dawn of the Protestant Reformation. Some memorial sites were added to the UNESCO world heritage list. However, it was too hot for us to see all the buildings. The temperature this weekend has been 37° C.
On the doors of the Schlosskirche (All Saint's Church) built 1496 - 1506 Luther nailed his 95 theses in 1517.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 - 2000) was an Austrian artist (later he took on the New Zealand citizenship). He became one of the best-know contemporary Austrian artists, and designed architecture later on using irregular forms and in-cooperate natural feature of the landscape. Here he designed a school, called the Hunderwasserschule, Luther-Melanchthon-Gymnasium.
Here some impressions:
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