{"id":2929,"date":"2014-06-07T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:13:29","slug":"wartburg-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wartburg-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Wartburg Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"castle\"<\/a>
\nPhoto from internet site<\/td>\n		Wartburg Castle\u00a0<\/span>
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\n\u00a0Eisenach, Germany\u00a0<\/span>
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\nWartburg, Tennessee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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BYRD MOUNTAIN LANDS ACQUIRED TO BUILD CASTLE<\/b><\/p>\n

Plans are in the making to build a “full scale” replica of the Wartburg Castle on a mountain\u00a0overlooking the city of Wartburg, Tn.\u00a0 This replica is the dream of a former pastor of\u00a0St. Paul Lutheran Church in Wartburg.\u00a0\u00a0 This pastor and a group of interested Morgan\u00a0County people, traveled to Germany recently to view the original Wartburg Castle. Building\u00a0plans are to begin soon with the building of the Chapel area of the Wartburg Castle\u00a0of Wartburg, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

From the Morgan County News, Wartburg, TN, March 9, 2000<\/p>\n

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Wartburg Castle is located on a 1230-foot cliff overlooking Eisenach, a city formerly behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany. It was founded by Duke Ludwig of Thuringia in 1067 AD and is one of the best preserved castles in In its great hall, the minstrels of the High Middle Ages held their competition. Germany. The oldest part of the Wartburg Castle is believed to be the lower gatehouse, whose arch was built about c 1150, and is now the entrance for visitors.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Martin Luther, the excommunicated and outlawed reformer, translated the New Testament into today’s German language at the Wartburg.\u00a0 After being called upon to stop his teachings and writings against the prevailing church of the day, Martin Luther was “kidnapped” in a friendly way, by Frederick the Wise and taken to Wartburg Castle to provide him a safe haven.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The castle became a powerful, historical symbol of the Reformation after Martin Luther’s stay there. This ‘symbol’ was brought to Tennessee when the German and Swiss immigrants came to East Tennessee and named their settlement “Wartburg”.<\/p>\n

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Sources:
\nMorgan County News dated March 9, 2000
\nPrinted materials at the Wartburg Public Library, Warburg, Tennessee<\/p>\n

Web Site about Wartburg Castle:<\/p>\n

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Photo from internet site Wartburg Castle\u00a0 – \u00a0Eisenach, Germany\u00a0 and Wartburg, Tennessee BYRD MOUNTAIN LANDS ACQUIRED TO BUILD CASTLE Plans are in the making to build a “full scale” replica of the Wartburg Castle on a mountain\u00a0overlooking the city of Wartburg, Tn.\u00a0 This replica is the dream of a former pastor of\u00a0St. Paul Lutheran Church… Continue reading Wartburg Castle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}