chapter 12: the Castle Church

After some ::ahem:: laundry issues that dominated Sunday morning from the wee hours (suffice it to say that we boarded the bus in company of a large garbage bag filled with various people's still-wet laundry), we left Hameln for the former East Germany and, specifically, Wittenburg.

The first stop in Wittenburg was the Castle Church where Luther nailed the 95 Theses. Actually, our tour guide said that nobody really knows who actually did the physical nailing (Luther or one of his student assistants), and in reality it sounds like the rather colorful denizens of Wittenburg have been coloring history for years and years.

Or maybe our tour guide (a lawyer who quit after a year of practice to find a more interesting job -- sound familiar?) had her own flair for local color.

Whatever the case, here's the Castle Church:

church: a no hand-holding zone

door of the 95 Theses

church interior

Frederick the Wise
(apparently quite the local hero)

Luther's grave