EKD Quiz on Martin Luther: Question 1

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Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben. He grew up in the county of Mansfeld where his father worked in the copper mines. Despite his strict upbringing, Luther always had a good relationship with his parents. Between 1497 and 1498 the young Martin Luther went to the cathedral school (Domschule) in Magdeburg, where the "Brothers of the Life in Community" ("Brüder vom gemeinsamen Leben", a pious movement in the Middle Ages) taught. In Eisenach he went to the Latin school from 1498 to 1501, where he was also introduced to the cultural life of the times in the houses of the first families of the city.
Luther and Johann von Staupitz in Erfurt	Luther did his undergraduate studies at the "Faculty of Arts": Grammar, rhetorics, Aristotelian Logic and Metaphysics. Originally, Luther was supposed to enter Law after he finished his studies with the promotion to the "Magister artium" (Master of Arts), as was the wish of his father. But on July 2, 1505 Luther was in a bad thunderstorm close to Stotternheim in the area of Erfurt. In his fear of getting hit by a lightning, Luther promised St. Anna (the patron of the miners): "I will become a monk".
By July 17, 1505 Luther entered the monastery of the Augustine Eremite Order (an especially strict order). After the noviciate Luther was ordinated as a priest on February, 27 1507 and his prior sent him off to study theology. He studied in Wittenberg and Erfurt until he finally settled in Wittenberg in 1511 and started teaching as a professor of theology in 1512. Luther's theological interests in the following years were questions concerning God's justice and the justification of humans before God. Raising these questions brought him in confrontation with established theology and Rome...

Near which town does Luther get into a thunderstorm on July, 2 1505?