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Lutherstadt Eisleben is considered by many to be the true home of the Protestant Reformation. It traces back to to the 16th century. In 1517, Martin Luther, the son of a miner from this town, published his 95 Theses on Christian religion. This led to a break with the Catholic Church, and Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther in 1521.
Eisleben, city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), central Germany. It is situated in the eastern foothills of the Harz Mountains. First mentioned in 994 as a market called Islebia and in 1180 as a town, it belonged to the counts of Mansfeld until it passed to Saxony in 1780. It was assigned to Prussia in.
May 10, 2017 · Eisleben, one of the oldest towns located between the Harz mountain range and the Elbe river, due to the mining of copper slate in the 15th and 16th century became the most important town of the...
Jun 20, 2017 · With a population over 25-thousand people, Eisleben is a quiet town in central Germany in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. But the South Harz region holds a special place in German and European history: Martin Luther came into the world in Eisleben in 1483, spent his childhood years in Mansfeld, and, on a trip home from Wittenberg to ...
Martin Luther's Death House (German: Martin Luthers Sterbehaus) is a historic building in Eisleben, Saxony-Anhalt Germany, long regarded as the place where the influential theologian Martin Luther died on 18 February 1546.
As authentic settings of decisive events in the Reformation and the life of Martin Luther, the memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg have an outstanding significance for the political, cultural, and spiritual life of the Western world that extends far beyond German borders.
Lutherstadt Eisleben is in Saxony-Anhalt. It is best known as the birth and death town of the 16th century Protestant reformer Martin Luther. Nowadays it is a small and calm town of about 22,400 inhabitants (as of 2021).
