When you leave the castle through the doors where the enormous heraldry hangs, it is maybe 500 feet to the St. Mary Church in Torgau, where Katherine Luther is buried. This is a photo I took while sitting in the very back pew, looking toward the altar. Katy Luther's gravestone is on the left. If you look closely, you can see a man sitting at the organ bench, and he is—yes—practicing a lovely Bach prelude. In virtually every church we visited, we entered just as the organist was wrapping up his practice. It gave us a chance to hear the organ the way it should be heard, in a marvelous stone interior, demonstrating its acoustical wonders.

Here is information about the St. Mary Church in Torgau. It is a late Gothic church with construction beginning around 1390, not completed until around 1500. Until the Reformation came to Torgau around 1525, the church was under the patronage of the Cistercian monastery in Nimbschen, which was, ironically, also where Katy Luther lived as a nun until she escaped in the 1520s. There is little left of the furnishings from the 1500s. The church in its Roman Catholic era had 16 altars inside. Most of the original treasures were sold to support the common city chest in Torgau after the introduction of the Reformation. A painted Passion altar dates from 1509 and is visible in this photo, up front, set to the left of the church's present altar. Luther preached at the St. Mary Church several times from 1519 on. Not far from the pulpit is still the bronze statue covering the grave of Duchess Sophie, Duke John's first wife, who died in 1503.