Qualla: Wittenberg https://qualla.com/wittenberg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wittenberg https://qualla.com/wittenberg Wittenberg: Introduction https://qualla.com/wittenberg/ Ninety-five propositions in Latin, written by a middle-ranking theology professor for academic debate, should have died in a lecture hall. They did not, and the reason has as much to do with Wittenberg's printing presses as with Wittenberg's monk. This was a printing town before it was a Reformation town. Lucas Cranach the Elder - court painter, apothecary, and at one point mayor - ran a print shop here that turned out the 95 Theses, the first part of Luther's German Bible, his Table Talks and an enormous quantity of woodcut propaganda besides. Ideas moved because somebody could set them in type and get them onto the road. Today it is officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, a town of the Saxon plain on the north bank of the Elbe, still shaped almost entirely by fifty years in the early sixteenth century.

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/0/z/wittenberg-wp/u30z-wittenberg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wittenberg: The University That Made the Town https://qualla.com/wittenberg/ Wittenberg received town rights on 27 June 1293 from Duke Albert II and had a governing council by 1317. In 1356 the Emperor Charles IV raised the Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg to Elector, and the town became an electoral residence - a serious address, though not yet an intellectual on...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/0/z/wittenberg-wp/u30z-wittenberg-cranachs-courtyards.mp3 0:06 3 full Wittenberg: The Relief on the Town Church https://qualla.com/wittenberg/ High on the outside of the Stadtkirche, where Luther preached for decades, is a sandstone carving dating from around 1305. It shows a rabbi lifting a sow's tail to look beneath it while other Jews suckle at her teats, and an inscription reads "Rabini Schem HaMphoras." It is a Jud...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/0/z/wittenberg-wp/u30z-wittenberg-the-relief-on-the-town-church.mp3 0:06 4 full Wittenberg: Bombardment, Barracks and the Red Army https://qualla.com/wittenberg/ Wittenberg's later history is mostly a record of things being knocked down and rebuilt smaller. A bombardment in 1760, during the Seven Years' War, burned the doors of the Schlosskirche and gutted the electoral palace; the church was practically rebuilt, restored again between 18...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/0/z/wittenberg-wp/u30z-wittenberg-bombardment-barracks-and-the-red-army.mp3 0:06 5 full Wittenberg: The Culture Mile https://qualla.com/wittenberg/ Almost everything worth seeing sits along a single walkable stretch the town calls the Culture Mile. The Bugenhagenhaus beside the town church is the oldest Protestant vicarage in the world, lived in continuously by Wittenberg's superintendents from the Reformation until 1997. Th...

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