Wittenberg (dpa/sa) – After two years of a corona-related break, thousands of people celebrated the festival “Luther’s Wedding” in the city of Wittenberg. About 70,000 visitors came from Friday to Sunday, according to a spokesman for the city’s marketing company. “The response to the events was consistently positive. You could feel that people were happy and happy to be able to party again,” he said. The highlight of the three-day festival in the city on the Elbe was the historic parade with performers of the bridal couple and the large wedding party.
The monk Martin Luther (1483-1546) had married the nun Katharina von Bora in Wittenberg in June 1525. She had escaped from the Nimbschen monastery (Saxony). According to tradition, the theologian nailed his 95 theses critical of the church to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. This event is considered the beginning of the Reformation in church and society, but critics speak of a split.
The festival “Luther’s Marriage” was initiated after 1990. It was canceled in 2020 because of the corona pandemic, and in 2021 it was celebrated as an “opening weekend” with cultural events, but without the historic parade that commemorates the wedding.
