even seeing something that isnt there is sometimes useful...
interesting to visit the small town of Eisleben, which came to be known after 1946 (in German natürlich) as "Luther-town" Eisleben, where one may visit the historical birth-home in which the undoubtedly historic Martin Luther was not born, and also visit the death home in which he did not die.
the newly-opened (February 2013) museum of "Martin Luther's Death House" -- the historically-mistaken one in which he did not actually die on 18 February 1546 -- is a curious interactive museum (directed mainly at the younger generation, and done in a way that makes its theme of death seem almost fun) which while it is somewhat "religious, Christian" in its exposition and messages, yet is also rather wry in how it addresses the fact that it is Luther's death house museum where he did not in fact die. (the history of the wrong house becomes in part its own story.)
but, much like the pleasant yet false "old" realities in Weimar, Frankfurt, et al, it doesnt seem to matter too much -- especially for those who dont inquire enough to know -- that the birth and death homes of Martin Luther are at best replicas, and in the case of the "death home", rather more a replica of a replica.
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