Word: eisleben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps a reason is that so little physical evidence survives to humanize the man. East Germany has a plethora of preserved Luther sites--Eisleben contains the house in which Luther was born and also the one in which he died--and Handel's birthplace, a solid two-story house, still stands not far from his rather smug statue in Halle's central marketplace...
...Bach could have been inspired by his surroundings. The Saxon plain is as flat as Kansas, its tiny villages grim studies in brown and gray; the ferocious reforming spirits of Lutheranism and Communism have done their work well. Similarly, it is hard to reconcile Luther's tiny deathbed in Eisleben with our outsize sense of the man's historical stature and accomplishments. And only in Germany would there be a chart in the room where Luther died of a heart attack that enumerates his physical complaints and describes a cure he took for one ailment that included the crucial ingredient...