The New Student's Reference Work/Wartburg

Wartburg (värt′bōōrg), an old German castle, near Eisenach, in Saxe-Weimar. The Wartburg War is the name given to a contest of the principal minnesinger of Germany, which was held at the castle about 1206. The castle also is the scene of the legend of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who was the wife of one of the landgraves of Thuringia, to whom it belongs. It is best known, however, as the place where Luther was hid after the Diet of Worms and where he translated the Bible into German. In 1817 the German students celebrated here the three hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. The castle was built in 1070.