Wartburg Castle. Just over an hour from Erfurt and looking over Eisenach, the town where Luther went to school. Wartburg was where Luther hid for a year, (from May 4 1521),while a declared outlaw. Frederick the Wise sponsored this hiding while Charles 5 and the pope has left him without protection. Here he translated the New Testament into German (in 3 months), a crucial part of the reformation, giving all people access to God's Word, as well as completing numer...

The study where Luther worked in Wartburg. There are any ornate rooms in the castle including a concert hall the Ludwig 2 copied for his castle in Neuschwanstein, that we saw last Tuesday. (The Disneyland castle)