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Love brings great joy
Monday, 23 September 2024,  7:00
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Monday | 23.9. | 7 p.m. | Christine Bourbeck House

19th WITTENBERG RENAISSANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Love brings great joy

Songs from Oswald von Wolkenstein to Taylor Swift

Wittenberger Hofkapelle

This concert is part of the 19th Wittenberg Renaissance Music Festival, which is dedicated to the phenomenon of popular music - in short: pop - from September 20th to 29th under the motto "Thank you for the Music". The other ten events, including seven concerts, the historical dance ball, the musical city walk and the instrument exhibition, will take place in other venues, in churches and in the Old Town Hall of Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

Free admission, collection requested

www.wittenberger-renaissancemusik.de

Location Christine Bourbeck House

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Why do we celebrate Reformation Day?

According to legend, on October 31, 1517, Luther nailed his 95 theses—his ideas and criticisms of the Church—to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. His ideas were so influential that they transformed the Church. They ultimately led to the founding of the Protestant Church—which is why this day is so important to us. On Reformation Day, Christians celebrate Martin Luther's courage in initiating the reform of the Church and the freedom that faith grants to every individual.

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The Thesis Door

According to tradition, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in Latin on this door, inviting scholars to debate them. The purpose of this debate was to clarify whether the Church's practice of selling indulgences was in accordance with the teachings of Jesus. This marked the beginning of the Reformation. The original wooden "Thesis Door" was destroyed in the great fire that ravaged the church in 1760. In 1858, King Frederick William IV of Prussia donated the current bronze door, on the panels of which the Latin text of the theses is cast.