Wartburg
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How it came to be
The Wartburg stands on a precipice above Eisenach in Thuringia. Its foundations were laid around 1067 by Louis the Springer, and the castle is first mentioned in 1080 in a work by Bishop Bruno of Merseburg. His son Louis I was made Landgrave of Thuringia in 1131, and the landgraves built the great hall, the Palas, in the second half of the 12th century.
From 1172 to 1211 the court of Landgrave Hermann I was among the most important in Germany, supporting poets such as Walther von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach. Elisabeth of Hungary, later a saint, lived in the castle from 1211 to 1228. From May 1521 to March 1522, after the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther was kept here for his safety under the name Junker Jörg, and in just ten weeks he translated the Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Revelation from Greek into German.
On 18 October 1817 about 500 students met at the castle to mark the 300th anniversary of the Reformation and the victory over Napoleon, and to call for German unity. In 1838 Grand Duke Karl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ordered the castle rebuilt as a national monument, a project led by the architect Hugo von Ritgen. The Wartburg was an important model for Ludwig II of Bavaria when he built Neuschwanstein, and it was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1999.
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