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EPISODE · Feb 5, 2021 · 22 MIN

Ask Angelika Season 3 Episode 31 - Wittenberg

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Ask Angelika Season 3 Episode 31 - Wittenberg In this episode we learned a few things about Wittenberg. As always Steven got to read some German sentences about it and tried to translate them into English. Here are the sentences again: Wittenberg ist eine Stadt in Sachsen-Anhalt.  Wittenberg is a town in Saxony-Anhalt. Die Stadt liegt an der Elbe, etwa 70 Kilometer von Leipzig entfernt. The town lies on the Elbe, about 70 kilometres from Leipzig. Die Stadt blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurück. The town looks back on a long history. 1996 wurden vier Gebäude in Wittenberg zum UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe ernannt. In 1996, four buildings in Wittenberg were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Das älteste Gebäude der Stadt ist die Stadtkirche St.Marien, die 1187 das erste Mal urkundlich erwähnt wurde. The oldest building in the town is the town church of St. Mary, which was first mentioned in a document in 1187. Die anderen Standorte sind die Schlosskirche, das Lutherhaus und das Melanchthonhaus. The other sites are the Castle Church, the Luther House, and the Melanchthon House. Am 31. Oktober 1517 nagelte Martin Luther 95 Thesen an die Tür der Schlosskirche. On the 31st October, 1517 Martin Luther nailed 95 theses onto the door of the castle church. Seit 1938 heißt Wittenberg amtlich Lutherstadt Wittenberg.  Since 1938, Wittenberg has officially been called Lutherstadt Wittenberg.  In der Lutherstadt Wittenberg sind nur etwa zehn Prozent der Menschen evangelisch. In Lutherstadt Wittenberg, only about ten percent of the people are Protestant.

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