The highest building in Wörlitz is the Tower of the Saint Petri Church, situated on the border between the town and the Park, not far from the Castle. Originally there was a smaller Romanesque church in this place (built from 1196-1201), which had been endowed by Albert I of Brandenburg, also called The Bear, to support churchly life within the admininstrative association Wörlitzer Winkel. In 1532 the church reformer Martin Luther was preaching here in front of the princes of Anhalt. In the years between 1804 and 1809 Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau had the Church together with the Tower reconstructed and extended in the neo-Gothic style.
Stamp is Felix the Rabbit, issued on 2015-03-02
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