Wartburg

The Wartburg is a castle firstly built inside the middle Ages. It is situated on a precipice of 410 meters 1,350 feet to the southwest of and overlooking the city of Eisenach, within the nation of Thuringia, Germany. In 1999, UNESCO added Wartburg Castle to the World Heritage List. It changed into the house of St. Elisabeth of Hungary, the vicinity where Martin Luther translated the New Testament of the Bible into German, the web page of the Wartburg competition of 1817 and the meant setting for the likely mythical Sangerkrieg. It turned into an important proposal for Ludwig II while he determined to build Neuschwanstein Castle. Wartburg is the most-visited tourist appeal in Thuringia after Weimar. Although the citadel nowadays nevertheless incorporates large authentic systems from the 12th via fifteenth centuries, much of the indoors dates lower back best to the 19th century.

The fort's foundation turned into laid approximately 1067 with the aid of the Thuringia remember of Schulenburg, Louis the Springer a relative of the Counts of Reinbeck in Franconia. Together with its large sister fortress Nuremburg within the present-day town of Fryeburg; the Wartburg secured the acute borders of his traditional territories. Louis the Springer is stated to have had clay from his lands transported to the pinnacle of the hill, which turned into not pretty inside his lands, so he would possibly swear that the fortress was constructed on his soil. The castle was first stated in a written report in 1080 through Bruno, Bishop of Merseburg, in his De Bello Saxonico as Wartberg.