Wittenberg

Wittenberg is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is located on the River Elbe, 60 kilometers north of Leipzig and 90 kilometers south-west of Berlin, and has a population of 48,501 in 2008. Wittenberg is renowned for its nearby association with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, for which it got the honorific Lutherstadt. A few of Wittenberg's structures related with the occasions, including a saved piece of the Augustinian cloister in which Luther lived, first as a priest and later as proprietor with his better half Katharina von Bora and family, viewed as the world's head exhibition hall committed to Luther.

Wittenberg was additionally the seat of the Elector of Saxony, a respect held by the dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg, making it a standout amongst the most dominant urban communities in the Holy Roman Empire. Authentic reports first notice the settlement in 1180 as a little town established by Flemish pilgrims under the standard of the House of Ascania. In 1260 this town turned into the living arrangement of the dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg, and in 1293 the settlement was allowed its town sanction as an unattached town. Wittenberg is home to various recorded destinations, just as pictures and different sketches by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger.