Where did Martin Luther grow up and live?

📍Lutherstraße 15, 06295 Lutherstadt Eisleben, Germany

1483 – 1546

“I was born Martin Luther on the 10th of November 1483 in Eisleben, Saxony, the son of Hans Luther, a copper miner who had risen to become a mine owner. My father intended me for a legal career. I was caught in a thunderstorm in 1505 and cried out that if I survived I would become a monk. I survived and kept my vow. I became an Augustinian friar, was ordained, and in 1517 nailed the Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, disputing the sale of indulgences. I did not intend to split the Western church — I intended to reform it. The split happened anyway. I was born in Eisleben and I died there in 1546. The city bracketed a life that changed the world.”

👍 LovedThe mining community's directness and practical faith. The Augustinian monastery's serious theological education. The German language that I shaped through my Bible translation.

👎 DislikedThe thunderstorm vow and its consequences. The excommunication and the years of hiding at Wartburg. The violence of the Peasants' War that my theology had partly inspired.

Map showing where Martin Luther lived — Lutherstraße 15, 06295 Lutherstadt Eisleben, Germany

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Martin Luther's home at Lutherstraße 15, 06295 Lutherstadt Eisleben, Germany

📍 Street view today

Sources: Bainton, R. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950), Abingdon-Cokesbury; Oberman, H. Luther: Man Between God and the Devil (1989), Yale University Press