A nlässlich of today's Reformation Day is to be quoted at this point a critic of the church aphorism Karlheinz Deschner:
"The saints Luther debunked as a myth. Legends of the Bible he was holding, and on belief in the devil, the witch mania also, at the Ketzervertilgung also, on anti-Semitism, the war service of the serfs, the prince. It's called: Reformation. " 1
If that does not have reasons to celebrate ...
The illustrated, the reformer Martin Luther performing plastic comes from Otto Lessing 2 . It is located on the northern side of St Michael's Church or - in other words - at the main entrance as seen from the left side of the building. Lessing created the sculpture in 1912 - in his last year. The cast took care of the "joint-stock company Gladbeck" from Berlin Friedrichshagen.
As a great-grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it offered itself, of course, that his great-great uncle Otto Lessing was a memorial, especially since another relative to the Committees headed Lessing, who had proclaimed 1886 a competition for a monument to Lessing. From 1887-90, Otto Lessing, a marble sculpture of the great poet as well as two allegorical figures in bronze: even the genius of humanity, and secondly, the allegory of criticism. The monument was erected in 1890 in the Tiergarten in Berlin opened, where it still stands today. Many of the sculptures created by Otto Lessing and sculptures have been destroyed during the Second World War, the sculpture on the second Gewandhaus in Leipzig and Berlin city palace and reliefs on the Roland Fountain in Berlin-Tiergarten. An interest created by his equestrian statue of Emperor William I. He was also melted. Another figure of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, a Lessing had created in the 1890s for the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, where they were destroyed in an airstrike.
