Eisleben and Wittenberg, Germany. Commemorating Martin Luther

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These places in Saxony-Anhalt illustrate the lives of Martin Luther and his disciple Melanchthon. They include Melanchthon's house in Wittenberg; the houses in Eisleben where Luther was born in 1483 and died in 1546; and his room in Wittenberg, the church in that town—and the castle church where, on October 31, 1517, Luther posted his famous "95 Theses," which launched the Reformation and a new era in the religious and political history of the world.

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