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WARTBURG, THE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WARTBURG, THE , a See also:castle near See also:Eisenach in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar. It is magnificently situated on the See also:top of a precipitous See also:hill, and is remarkable not only for its See also:historical associations but as containing one of the few well-preserved Romanesque palaces in existence. The See also:original castle, of which some parts—including a portion of the above-mentioned See also:palace (Landgrafenhaus)—still exist, was built by the See also:landgrave See also:Louis " the See also:Springer " (d. 1123), and from his See also:time until 1440 it remained the seat of the Thuringian landgraves. Under the landgrave See also:Hermann I., the Wartburg was the See also:home of a boisterous See also:court to which minstrels and " wandering folk " of all descriptions streamed;l and it was here that in 1207 took See also:place the minstrels' contest (Sdngerkrieg) immortalized in See also:Wagner's See also:Tannhauser. Some years later it became the home of the saintly See also:Elizabeth of See also:Hungary (q.v.) on her See also:marriage to Louis the See also:Saint (d. 1227), to whom she was betrothed in 1211 at the See also:age of four? It was to the Wartburg, too, that on the 4th of May 1521, See also:Luther was brought for safety at the instance of See also:Frederick the See also:Wise, elector of See also:Saxony, and it was during his ten months' See also:residence here (under the incognito of See also:Junker Jorg) that he completed his See also:translation of the New Testament. From this time the castle was allowed gradually to decay. It was restored in the 18th See also:century in the questionable See also:taste of r See also:Walther von der Vogelweide (ed. F. See also:Pfeiffer r88o, No.

99) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (Parzival vi. 526 and Willehalm 417, 26) both refer to the See also:

noise and See also:constant crush of crowds passing in and out at the Wartburg " See also:night and See also:day." 2 Wagner, with a poet's See also:licence, has placed the Sdngerkrieg during Elizabeth's residence at the Wartburg.drainage See also:basin is 17,400 sq. m. See also:WART-HOG, the designation of certain hideous See also:African See also:wild See also:swine (see SWINE), characterized by the presence of large warty protuberances on the See also:face, the large See also:size of the tusks in both sexes, especially the upper pair, which are larger and stouter than the See also:lower ones and are not worn at their summits, and the complexity and See also:great size of the last pair of molar See also:teeth in each See also:jaw. The adults have frequently no teeth except those just mentioned, and nearly See also:bare skins; and the See also:young are uniformly coloured. Two nearly allied See also:species are recognized, namely, the See also:southern Phacochoerus aethiopicus, which formerly ranged as far See also:south as the Cape, and the See also:northern P. See also:africanus, which extends to the mountains of See also:Abyssinia, where it has been found at a high See also:elevation. In South and See also:East See also:Africa wart-hogs frequent more or less open See also:country, near See also:water, and dwell in holes, generally those of the aard-vark. In Abyssinia, on the other See also:hand, they spend the day among bushes, or in ravines, feeding at night.

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