BERLINER DOME (PROTESTANT CHURCH)
#1. Make sure you drive on the AUTOBAN, there is no speed limit on this road. I was in a bus going 100mph and there were still cars passing us= super rad experience.
I stayed in the most amazing Hostel here: Wittenberg Hostel, Jugendherberge Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenburg. (Tel: 011 49 3491 505 206) It's close to the town and they make you amazing home-cooked meals- wonderful when you've been traveling. Cobble stone roads, green everywhere, smells of pastries and pies AH YES PLEASE!
Explore the town, it is beautiful
And don't leave until you've had a pastry!
Go to SCHLOSSKIRCHE (CASTLE CHURCH) CLIMB IT,
Also, in the basement, you will see the tombs of Luther, Melanchton, Frederick the Wise and Jonathan the Steadfast(he was the first protestant)
(VIEW FROM TOP)
AND SEE THE 95 THESIS DOOR.
I am so grateful for Martin Luther and other reformers in his day, because they enabled the translation of the bible from Latin into English, which made it possible for different churches to be built, causing Joseph Smith to go to the Sacred Grove and ask Heavenly Father which he should join.
Isn't history amazing!!!
Original pulpit where M.L Preached
95 Thesis doors
Old books (4centries) in martin Luther's home, now turned Museum
Take a stroll around Market Square, Cranach house on market, Renaissance Town Hall (super old) and Stadkirche (city church).
Wittenberg University- there you will find the place where Martin Luther burned the Papal Bull, Luther's Oak, learn about Exsurge Domine.
BERLIN
Beware: If you go in the Spring and it starts to rain..it will POUR!!!
Berlin is awesome, and probably another one of my favorite places in the world! I stayed at the Meininger City Hostel & Hotel, Schonhauser Allee 19, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
Take a BUS TOUR, you get lots of great information on tours like these, especially if you sit up at the front by the director.
BRANDENGURG GATES, AND HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 m2 (4.7-acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m (7.9 in to 15 ft 9.0 in). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.
This is definitely worth seeing.
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE & THE BERLIN WALL
PERGAMOM MUSEUM
Here you see Zeus' Altar and the Babylonian Ishtar Gate
Germany is another place I might have to return to one of these days. All in all, another wonderful experience :)
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