Universitätsplatz
Old-town university square laid over a vanished monastery, with memorial plates set in its paving.
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This guide to Universitätsplatz in Heidelberg starts with a memorial plate in the paving and the spring of fifteen eighteen, when the Augustinian friars invited a newly famous monk from Wittenberg to explain himself. It follows Martin Luther into a monastery whose walls now lie buried beneath the square, and into a debate about what a person can and cannot earn from God. Young listeners like Martin Bucer and Johannes Brenz turn up in the crowd. Stand near the plate in the middle of the square while you listen.
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