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St. Mary's Town Church Wittenberg

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St. Mary's Town Church Wittenberg

St. Mary's Town Church Wittenberg

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Location: Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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  • At the south-east corner of the town church in Wittenberg there has been a mockery and mockery of the Jewish religion since around 1290. Abusive sculptures of this kind, which show Jews in connection with pigs - animals that are considered unclean in Judaism - were particularly common in the Middle Ages. ...The memorial below the abusive sculpture was unveiled in November 1988, fifty years after the beginning of the pogroms against Jews in Nazi-ruled Germany. The base plate, cast in bronze, shows four tread plates tilted against each other, which look as if they were laid in muddy ground. The joints form a sign of the cross. The surrounding text connects the inscription of the abusive sculpture with the Holocaust: "God's real name / the reviled Shem Ha Mphoras / whom the Jews before the Christians / held almost unspeakably holy / died in six million Jews / under a sign of the cross." Source: https: //wittenberg.de/kultur-und-tourismus/qr-codes-stelen-des-tourist-leit-systems/mahnmal-an-der-stadtkirche-wittenberg-s06qr1.html
    I think this is a very successful way of dealing with changed perspectives. No iconoclasm but visible distancing based on today's experiences.

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    • May 15, 2022

  • In the town church is also the famous Reformation altar by Lucas Cranach

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    • September 8, 2017

  • In addition to the castle church, the literally towering structure of Wittenberg. We recommend going around the church, as many details can first be seen and a good impression of the narrow medieval buildings is created. The neighboring buildings are also worth seeing.

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    • August 31, 2021

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Location: Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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