Wartburgkrieg

poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach

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contribution to Lohengrin legend

  • The tower of Swans' Castle (Schwanenburg), Kleve, Ger., associated with the legend of Lohengrin
    In Lohengrin

    …contemporary poem known as the Wartburgkrieg presented the story of Lohengrin as an entry in a story-telling competition; it was the contribution of von Eschenbach, who recited it in the famous singers’ contest held at Wartburg (a castle overlooking the town of Eisenach) by the landgrave of Thuringia, Hermann I…

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