Stadtkirche

Stadtkirche is the city church of the German town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. The reformers Martin Luther and Johannes Bugenhagen lectured there and the structure additionally observed the primary festival of the mass in German as opposed to Latin and the first since forever dissemination of the bread and wine to the assemblage - it is along these lines considered the mother-church of the Protestant Reformation. Since 1996 it has been a World Heritage Site - the Castle Church of All Saints, the Lutherhaus, the Melanchthonhaus and the encompassing Dessau-Worlitz Garden Realm structure the world's densest convergence of World Heritage Sites in a single territory.

The main notice of the Pfarrkirche St.- Marien dates to 1187. Initially a wooden church in the Diocese of Brandenburg, in 1280 the present chancel and the chancel's south passageway were fabricated. Somewhere in the range of 1412 and 1439 the nave was supplanted by the present three-passageway structure and the two towers assembled, initially delegated by stone pyramids. The principal Protestant administration was held here by Luther at Christmas 1521. The congregation was again reestablished in 1928 and furthermore 1980-1983.