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globetrott Says: Schweizer Zimmer reminds me in fact a lot of the furniture I had seen in castles of Spiez, Oberhofen and Schwyz. It is mainly that kind of wooden wall-decorations, woodcarvings and that ornate lovely tiled-oven that makes this room so special. Take a look at the fine details...
amsor Says: We had learned about Martin Luthers time in the wartburg in school and so it was very interesting to see this castle for me. The castle was bigger than I expected, nice tower to look out, 2 restaurants and even a hotel in the castle, but very expensive one.Great Mosaiks in...
Wartburg Museum - Copy of the New Testament
egonwegh Says: An antique copy of the New Testament in German, to be found in the Wartburg Museum. Presumably this book is an early imprint of the text in German as established from the Greek source text by Martin Lüther. These two pages tell part of the story of the birth of Jezus and...
evona Says: The Wartburg Castle is one of the most famous castles in Germany. The castle is very old and was built during the era of Ludowingian - in year 1067. In the medieval times was the castle setting for the minnesingers' contest. Here lived and worked St. Elisabeth. Martin Luther...
Elisabeth Kemenate, mosaics (3)
egonwegh Says: A wedding scene - the banner says "Sponsalio ..." - too bad I resized this picture to fit on VT, I'll have to check the original picture to see what else it says. Back in those days, weddings often involved the act of climbing into a bed together in front of all the wedding...
egonwegh Says: Large wall painting by Moritz von Schwind in the Sängersaal at the Wartburg. The scene depicts the moment in which master Klingsor - he's the one on the left in this painting with the red cape - pronounces his judgement in the rather protracted Sängerkrieg (Singers' Battle)...
globetrott Says: Automobile Welt Eisenach is a rather new museum about the long tradition of the production of cars in Eisenach. The first car was built there in 1899, the famous Wartburg-Motorenwagen with 5 HP. More pupolar cars that were built in Eisenach : BMW Dixi, the BMW Roadstar 328....
Burgschenke „Gadem“: great food in the 2nd castle-court
globetrott Says: Burgschaenke or Burgschenke Gadem, there is an old spelling and a new one and it is that building with the half-timbered facade on my main picture. It is a nice place for your meal, a lot cheaper and also less formal than the Landgrafenstube !Burgschaenke „Gadem“ is open...
Cafe-Terrasse Wintergarten: the selfservice with a view
globetrott Says: Kaffee-Terasse Wintergarten is a self-service restaurant with a large terrace and reasonable prices and it is the same building as the 5star-hotel, BUT at the backside, with a different enrance and no way to walk through for the customers ! The prices of this Cafe are a lot...
Tannhäuser auf der Wartburg: see it in the very place
globetrott Says: Tannhäuser und der Saengerkrieg auf der Wartburg is a special performance during EASTER and WHITE SUNDAY and the performances will be held inside the Wartburg in the historic "Festsaal" / Festival-Hall, where this event was held according to the ledgends.you may click here...
globetrott Says: Thueringen-Card is a prepaid card for a duration between 24 hours and any 3 or 6 full days that entitles you for free transportation in the Bundesland (county) of Thueringen and for free entry into almost all museums and other tourist-attractions.Apart from the day ticket of...
globetrott Says: Driving by vintage-car is a lot of fun and of course it should be a Wartburg, when you are in Eisenach, where the BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke) were producing their cars before WW II and the car-production was continued after the war under the name EMW (Eisenacher Motoren...
ATLC Says: One thing you should know about visiting Wartburg castle is that you park you car for 5 euro at the bottom of the hill. Then you climb the hill which can be a bit strenuous but not overly. I counted about 250 steps up to the top with some pathway in between.When you park the...
800 years Elisabeth von Thüringen in 2007
globetrott Says: 2007 is the year of the 800 years anniversary of Elisabeth von Thueringen and plenty of special events will take place at the Wartburg and also in Marburg, where Elisabeth spent the last few years of her life.There will be a special exhibition at WartburgElisabeth von...
Point Alpha - a place of the Cold War
globetrott Says: POINT ALPHA is a small place about 40km south-west of Eisenach, where the US-Forces had a watchtower and an army-camp directely at the DDR-border and next to the fortified iron-curtain of the East-Bloc. This camp was built at a place, where they could easyly watch many...
globetrott Says: Hanstein castle is another great sight not very far from Wartburg. This great castle dates back the the medeval times and it used to be off limits during the times of the cold war, beeing situated directely at the borderline of DDR, at a sensible place, overlooking a big...
globetrott Says: Gotha is a lovely town with some interesting buildings and a large palace. I had a short stop-over there and was impressed by the lovely townhall, that you may see on my 1st picture. About 800 meters from the townhall you may see the impressive castle / palace of Gotha, it...
globetrott Says: Weimar is a lovely town not far from the Wartburg and of course it is connected with famous people of german history like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and a lot more. When you start at the main-square you will see the old townhall (my 1st pic) and actual...
globetrott Says: Lutherhaus in Eisenach is first of all the oldest and one of the most beautiful half-timered houses of Eisenach. Some ledgends are telling us that Martin Luther spent 3 years of his life as a young child in this house between 1498 and 1501.In 1898 it became a restaurant,...
Wartburg - German history dating back to 1067
globetrott Says: Wartburg was founded according to the ledgends in the year 1067 by "Graf Ludwig dem Springer" and it became the family-seat of the so-called "Ludowigers" a powerful noble family that became the most important family in the "Holy Roman Empire of Germany" for 200 years. In the...
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What always strikes me in a castle, especially those that are high up on a hill, is that they are in fact small villages, little self-containing communities. Often it's more a fortification with...
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I was looking for a day trip to Thuringia from Würzburg (Bavaria) and a friend suggested the Wartburg Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site #897. It was less than a couple of hours drive via the A71......
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