Wittenberg

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• Luther's Home at the Black Cloister

  phone: +49 3491-4203-0
  address: Collegienstraße 54
  The largest museum of the Protestant Reformation worldwide. Where else would you expect to find it?

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• Melanchthon House

  address: Collegienstraße 60
  Renaissance building where Phillip Melanchton lived and worked.

• Cranach Houses and Courtyards

  address: Markt 4 and Schlossstraße 1
  The painter Lucas Cranach the elder lived here, and ran a print shop.

• Corpus Christi ChapelTiny chapel built in 1368, rebuilt in 1456.

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• Museum für Stadtgeschichte

  phone: +49 3491-43349-20
  address: Schlossplatz 1d
  Historical museum of the town.

• Haus der Geschichte

  address: Schlossstraße 6
  This museum documents the life as it was during the socialist years after WW II until the 1980s.

• Piesteritzer Werkssiedlung

  address: Karl-Liebknecht-Platz 20
  A working class housing project of 1916, restored to its original state in 2000. The biggest car-free neighbourhood in Germany.

• Rathaus

  address: Markt
  City hall built in 1535, rebuilt almost completely in 1926-28. Changing exhibitions. Memorials with statues of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon in the town square.

Michael Schmalenstroer

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• Schlosskirche

  address: Schlossplatz
  Where Luther allegedly posted his 95 Theses. Martin Luther and his fellow reformer, Philipp Melanchthon are buried inside.

• University Leucorea

  address: Collegienstraße 62
  Historic university, opened in 1502, closed in 1817. Today used as a congress center for scientists.

• Stadtkirche St. Marien

  address: Jüdenstraße 36
  The oldest building in the town, with an altar painted by Lucas Cranach.

Michael Schmalenstroer

• Hundertwasserschule

  address: Schillerstraße 22 a
  An old school building converted to Hundertwasser's colourful style in 1999.

• Archeological Exhibition

  address: Alte Canzley, Schlossplatz 3

• Organ-at-Three

  address: Schlosskirche
  Organ music played on the historic Ladegast Organ of the Schlosskirche.

• Guided tours

  address: Schlossplatz 2
  May be cancelled if less than 10 participants show up.

Budget

• Kartoffelhaus Zum Schwarzen Bär

  phone: +49 3491 419868
  address: Schloßstraße 2

Mid-range

• Athos Griechisches Restaurant

  phone: +49 3491 414080
  address: Am Alten Bahnhof 1

• Il Castello

  phone: +49 3491 414547
  address: Schloßstraße 3

• Tante Emma's Bier & Café Haus

  phone: +49 3491 414547
  address: Markt 9

Splurge

• Brauhaus Wittenberg

  phone: +49 3491 433134
  address: Markt 6

• Charles Bar

  phone: +49 170 5961274
  address: Markt 7, 06886

Camping

• Marina-Camp-Elbe

  phone: +49 3491 454-0
  address: Brückenkopf 1

Budget

• DJH Jugendherberge Lutherstadt Wittenberg

  phone: +49 3491 - 50 52 05
  address: Schlossstraße 14-15
  Youth hostel inside the castle.

Mid-range

• Stadthotel Schwarzer Bär

  phone: +49 3491 4204344
  address: Schloßstraße 2

• Brauhaus Wittenberg

  phone: +49 3491 433130
  address: Wallstraße 7

Splurge

• Best Western Stadthotel

  phone: +49 3491 4250
  address: Collegienstraße 56/57

• Alte Canzley

  phone: +49 3491 429190
  address: Schloßplatz 3-5

• Berlin and Potsdam, about 100 km northeast
• Dessau, 35 km west
• Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich (Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz), an English park landscape
• Eisleben, 100 km southwest. The city where Luther was born and died and the other half of the Luther World Heritage Site.
• Halle, about 90 km southwest
• Leipzig, about 70 km south
• Magdeburg, about 90 km west
• Torgau, 50 km southeast (one hour by train), another place closely linked with Martin Luther and the Reformation