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...first postwar years, Pastor Theodor Distelmann, holding services in the ruins of the Magnuskirche, sadly wondered where the money to rebuild his church would come from. His old friend, Pastor Alfred Herrnbrodt, thought he knew a way to get some. In 1949, when the 400-year-old "Luther Elm" on Pastor Herrnbrodt's property died, the pastor commissioned a woodcarver to make 30,000 small "Luther roses" and 500 "Luther plaques" out of the tree, which was rich in Lutheran tradition.* Sale of the mementos (plus a recently granted West German government subsidy) should bring in enough to meet...
...Pastor Herrnbrodt was touring the U.S. last week, arranging for the sale of his Luther mementos, already on sale in Germany and Sweden. U.S. price: roses $1, plaques $10. In Worms last week, workmen began to build a new Magnuskirche over the ruined Romanesque arches...
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