Luther House (Schmalkalden)
The listed Luther House stands at the Luther Place 7 in Schmalkalden , a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen of Thuringia .
description
Martin Luther lived here in 1537 during a meeting of the Schmalkaldic League . A colored plaque with an inscription from 1687 commemorates the conference. The three-storey half - timbered house , which essentially dates from around 1520, consists of a front building and the rear building, which was built around 1365. The to Lutherplatz gable continuous front building with a hipped roof covered. The house was changed in the 17th century. During the restorations in 1982 and 1995/96, major changes were made to the fabric of the building . The wooden framework has quarter-circle foot arches. On the ground floor wall of the gable is the building owner's house mark from 1538, including a round mark framed by three cannon balls . On the second floor there is a fully plastic swan in front of a plaque with the coats of arms of Luther and Melanchthon.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 . Page 1112
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 11.6 ″ E