The martin-luther-square in bischofsheim should be a sign of the unity between people and denominations. The idea of commemorating the church reformer in a special way on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the reformation came from former town council member bernhard adrian. In the summer, a statue of martin luther was made by johannes brennsteiner, a journeyman wood sculptor, from an oak trunk from the town forest on behalf of the town of bischofsheim.
The official unveiling and the ceremony took mayor georg seiffert as an occasion to remember the diverse history of bischofsheim in the course of the reformation. Martin luther never visited bischofsheim in person, but the reformation thoughts did not stop at rhon either. From 1547 to 1570 nikolaus balling, a lutheran, was the town pastor in bischofsheim. For more than 20 years there were exclusively protestant services in bischofsheim. The prince-bishop julius echter changed this, he initiated various measures so that the subjects would return to the old faith. According to the chronicle of bischofsheim, there were still five lutheran residents in 1595, but by 1609 all the wurzburg subjects in bischofsheim were catholic again.
In order to strengthen the catholic faith, prince bishop julius echter decided in 1592 to demand and restore the pilgrimage to the kreuzberg. This was also the reason for the monastery chapel in 1598. In the middle of the 19th century. At the end of the 19th century, there were about 40 protestants in bischofsheim, but they did not have their own church and went to gersfeld for services and baptisms. After gersfeld had become preubisch in 1866, it no longer seemed opportune to attend a church service abroad. The evangelicals from bischofsheim were therefore assigned to what was then the vicariate of neustadt. In 1895 an evangelical association with about 150 people was founded in bischofsheim. A few years later, this association bought the land on the outskirts of bischofsheim, on which the foundation stone for today's christ church was laid in 1902. Since then, the evangelical church has also been present in bischofsheim with a house of worship and was later expanded with a parish and community center. Mayor seiffert referred to the confessional diversity in bischofsheim, which is not only lived between catholic and protestant church. Bischofsheim is also home to the russian orthodox parish, the franciscan monastery on the kreuzberg and the christian community. Representatives of all communities were present at the unveiling of martin luther of bischofsheim, respectively the orthodox pastor holldobler had been excused because of a baptism. The good cooperation is an enrichment for the city of bischofsheim, thanked seiffert. To call the place at the water playground now martin-luther-place, had been done in agreement with the evangelic pastor matthias schricker and the church council.