Tschüß Luther guten Tag Dresden

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So saying bye to Lutherstadt Wittenberg was a bit harder today, due to time I had time to either view the Castle Church or the Luther Haus, the woman at information suggested (vorschlagen) that I see the Lutherhaus since the castle church has almost every but one thing covered up for reconstruction. I was happy seeing the Luther Haus though, it was really cool and totally worth the time and money. They had so many books printed (first editions) by Luther along with so many personal artifacts. I was interested to find out that he recieved so many gifts from kings and princes after the reformation. A quote in the museum also inspired me to help the needy, I saw an older man sitting on a street corner looking sickly, i decided to go into the next bakery and buy him a donut and a roll and gave him the rest of my basically just opened soda. He ate and accepted the drank happily, he was the only poor I have seen in Wittenberg but it felt very rewarding to help him and he was very appreciative, odd how 2€ can change someones day. I did learn quite a bit more about Luther and the boooks he worte towards the end of his life, he tried to rally the kings against the Turkish invasion as means of defence against Islam along with his multiple (I thought singular) works asking for expulsion of the Jews from Germany and the burning of the Synagogs. The Lutheran Council later denounced his works on the Jews and called them inexplainable. The Nazis would later use these works to justify their laws against the Jews and actually had a big celebration in Lutherstadt Wittenberg for the anniversery of either the death of Luther or the start of the reformation.
Dresden though is an interesting city with gorgeous works of architecture affected by both war and industrialism. About 80% of this city was destroyed in bombing raid during WW2. The city since has been rebuilt and gorgeous. I made my goal small today, figure out where things are and see the famous Dresden Dom. The dom was left in ruins by hte soviets as a reminder to the German people of the war, but after the fall of the soviet union the Germans rebuilt this magical dom in about 10 years of hard work, it was literally built from a pile of rubble. Bricks and parts of the building that were still used in the rebuilding project. I also took a stroll along the shoes of the Elbe, there are some active fish in there but I have yet to see any fishing! The boats that work on the river are old and I believe come from a Roman design, they are wide and shallow so that they can navagate the river well. The rivers here can be dangerous, I recommend to fellow poetry nerds the stories of the Lore-Lay in Germanic literature.
Tomorrow the goal is to see more of the city and the architecture, there are some beautiful churches here, they are simply moving and the fact that they were built in the 1500s and sometimes earlier is mind numbing!
Servus!

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