Reformation 492 years - Wittenberg celebrates three days - 8 years until the 500th

With concerts, church services, lectures and historical performances will Wittenberg, 30 October to 1 November to the beginning of the Reformation 492 years ago remember. The visitors expect from the traditional Feast of the Reformation, a change of religious and academic events as well as an eight-hour market activity in the 16 Century, said the association "Wittenberg culture" yesterday. Among the festival highlights include concerts in the town church and in the Castle Church on 31 October.

It also invited to attend two church services. In it the Bishop preach the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, Ilse Jungermann, and the Wittenberg Regional Bishop Siegfried Kasparick. The program includes a meeting of the Evangelical Academy of Sachsen-Anhalt under the motto "The German Luther," the fourth Renaissance music festival and a "Christian magic show around Luther."

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As part of the festival also want to plant church dignitaries from several countries, the first trees of different species in a Luther Garden. On to the symbolic first ecumenical action November were announced among others, the general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, Ishmael Noko, and the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper.

Arriving from Leipzig or Berlin with the ICE comfortably to enjoy the atmosphere of a historic city, consume art and culture - and relax in the medieval market stalls.
THE program for the weekend!