Luther mania sweeps German town, 500 years after Reformation It is on a door of a church in Wittenberg in Germany that Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses in 1517, leading to the split with the Catholic Church and giving birth to Protestantism. As Germany commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the seismic theological shift started by Luther, Wittenberg is decked out in full Luther regalia. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES