Wittenberg
“Once again we are at the forefront,” laughs Andreas Wöhle, theologian and Lutheran pastor in Amsterdam. In 2025, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands will include sacred music as a topic on the synod agenda. This weekend Lutherans will release a new songbook containing hymns from around the world, from Africa and Asia to Scandinavia.
And what better place to present such a collection than in Wittenberg, the “Rome of the Lutherans”? There, under the leadership of church reformer Martin Luther, the first collection of Protestant songs in the vernacular was published in 1524, exactly five hundred years ago. Achtliederbuch.
