Christianity broke into two after Martin Luther pegged his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church. St, Mary's church, where Luther preached, is seen above. Michael Bader On Oct. 31, 1517, ...

Germany celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on Tuesday with a national holiday and ceremonies in the eastern city of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther began a split in the ...

WITTENBERG, GERMANY — It’s 8 a.m. in rural east Germany, and Gunter, a hulking tree trunk of a man, is swinging a hammer over his head, pounding together the steel frame of a 90-foot-tall lookout ...

Wittenberg feels like a one-street town: a long, straight thoroughfare that takes you through the early history of the Reformation as you walk (or better, stroll – this is a corner of the old East ...