 The Lutheran church was organized through the late 1510s and the early 1520s.It was officially established in 1527 by John the Steadfast.Although some of the sites associated with Martin Luther also lie in the current state of Saxony-Anhalt (including Wittenberg, Eisleben and Mansfeld), today's Saxony is usually viewed as the formal successor to what used to be Luther's country back in the 16th century (i.e.