Wittenberg

a German town on the Elbe midway between Berlin and Leipsic. Wittenberg is noted chiefly in connection with Luther and Melanchthon whose statues adorn the marketplace and whose bodies lie buried beneath bronze slabs in the chief church of the city. The church doors to which Luther tacked his ninety-five theses were burned in 1760 and have been replaced by bronze doors bearing in raised type the original Latin text of the theses. The buildings of the old university, mentioned in Hamlet, the institution in which Luther and Melanchthon were professors, have been taken over for military barracks. See Luther