Hotel Hotel-Pension Am Schwanenteich
This 3-star hotel offers non-smoking rooms with a flat-screen TV and free WiFi. It stands in the heart of the old town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. All rooms at the Hotel-Pension Am Schwanenteich include a free safe, a desk and a private bathroom. All rooms can be accessed by lift. Am Schwanenteich's restaurant is open daily and offers breakfast and evening meals. Packed lunches are available for guests taking day trips. Hotel-Pension Am Schwanenteich is a 2-minute walk from the Stadthaus and Exerierhalle, and a 5-minute walk from the historic market square, the Schlosskirche church, the Lutherhaus (Luther's House) and the Cranachhöfe. It is also opposite a park featuring jogging trails and a small pond. The hotel offers rental bikes as well as storage space for bikes and motorbikes. It is a 7-minute walk from Lutherstadt Wittenberg Altstadt Train Station and a 12-minute walk from Wittenstadt Main Station.
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What to see in Wittenberg
Wittenberg (German pronunciation: ˈvɪtn̩ˌbʁk (? His official name is Lutherstadt Wittenberg ('Wittenberg City of Luther').
The importance of Wittenberg lies in its direct connection with Martin Luther, and the beginning of the Protestant reform; Several of its buildings are associated with the events of that time. Part of the old monastery of the Augustinians is still preserved (in which Luther died, at first as a monk, and then as a father along with his wife Catalina de Bora and his 6 children), and contains numerous works of art, including several Cranachs paintings. The building is currently called the Lutherhaus, which houses a museum on Luther and the reform.
The Church of All Saints, the Schlosskirche ("Church of the Palace"), in whose Luther door nailed the ninety-five theses in 1517, dates between 1439-1499. It was seriously damaged by a fire in 1760 as a result of a French bombardment during the seven-year war, and was practically rebuilt and restored years later (1885-1892). The wooden doors, burned in 1760, were replaced in 1858 by the bronze doors, carrying the Latin text of the thesis. Within the church are Luther and Philipp Melanchthon's tombs, by the voters Federico the Sabio (by Peter Vischer, 1527) and Juan de Saxony (by Hans Vischer), and the portraits of Lucas Cranach the young man's reformers.
