Stadt- und Pfarrkirche St. Marien

Name: Stadt- und Pfarrkirche St. Marien
Address: DE

Church in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, dating from 1281

The Stadt- und Pfarrkirche St. Marien zu Wittenberg (Town and Parish Church of St. Mary's) is the civic church of the German town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. The reformers Martin Luther and Johannes Bugenhagen preached there and the building also saw the first celebration of the mass in German rather than Latin and the first ever distribution of the bread and wine to the congregation – it is thus considered the mother-church of the Protestant Reformation. In 1996, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List along with Castle Church of All Saints (Schlosskirche), the Lutherhaus, the Melan

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Type:: Church
Period:: 1281
Where:: Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
Coordinates:: 51.87°N, 12.64°E

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