Unesco officials in Paris were deeply impressed when they first looked at the small town of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt in 1995, shortly after the fall of the Wall. The church in which the church rebel Martin Luther once preached, in the middle of the old town, is characterized by “high Gothic wooden sculptures” that came “from the workshop of the famous Naumburg master”. That’s how Unesco officials noted it. It is a detailed, almost rapturous description. The main altar: “a work by Lucas Cranach the Elder and the Younger, the iconography heavily influenced by Luther and Melanchthon”. Only one detail is missing in the detailed description. And that is noticeable.
anti-Semitic abusive plastic in Wittenberg – culture
