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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 471
Land area (2000): 1.638781 sq. miles (4.244424 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.638781 sq. miles (4.244424 sq. km)
FIPS code: 88325
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.823795 N, 89.167328 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54499
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wittenberg
Wikipedia
Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Situated on the river Elbe, it has a population of about 50,000.
The importance of Wittenberg historically was due to its seat of the Elector of Saxony, a dignity held by the dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg and also to its close connection with Martin Luther and the dawn of the Protestant Reformation; several of its buildings are associated with the events of this time. Part of the Augustinian monastery in which Luther dwelt, first as a monk and later as owner with his wife and family, is preserved and considered to be the world's premier museum dedicated to Luther. Various Luther and Melanchthon memorial sites were added to the UNESCO world heritage list in 1996.
Wittenberg is a district (Kreis) in the east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Anhalt-Bitterfeld, the district-free city of Dessau-Roßlau, the districts of Potsdam-Mittelmark, Teltow-Fläming and Elbe-Elster in Brandenburg, and the district of Nordsachsen in the Free State of Saxony.
Wittenberg is a surname, and may refer to:
- Arvid Wittenberg
- Dave Wittenberg
- Henry Wittenberg
- John Wittenberg
- Jonathan Wittenberg
- Marloes Wittenberg
- Yitzhak Wittenberg
Usage examples of "wittenberg".
Then he became a college professor at the theological school of Wittenberg and began to explain the scriptures to the indifferent ploughboys of his Saxon home.
He found an account of the Wandering Jew in Prague in the fourteenth century, and another of him visiting Cornelius Agrippa, and another of him being in Wittenberg and Brunswick at the end of the seventeenth century.
In 1517, two years before Magellan’s voyage, Martin Luther proclaimed the new spirit of independence when he nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg.
And on the eve of All Saints, 1517, he posted on the door of the Castle church in Wittenberg a placard, written in Latin, containing ninety-five theses which he challenged theologians to debate.