We retraced Hans Luther's steps, walking out the back of the Luther birth house. On November 11, Hans would have taken the side street leading to the church and up to the door where he would have entered with his new baby boy. Martin was named after the saint of the day, St. Martin. This church is first mentioned in writing in 1333. The oldest part of the existing three-aisled church, the west tower, was built from 1447 to 1474. Luther was baptized in an earlier structure before the present church was completed. The man in the picture is one of my traveling companions, Rev. Robert Zagore.