Sujet

The Castle of Wartburg, Germany, the "Patmos" of Luther..., 1862. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Castle of Wartburg, Germany, the "Patmos" of Luther - from a sketch by our special artist, 1862. 'Wartburg Castle [was] the asylum of Luther from May 4, 1521, to March 6, 1522. Luther was wont to compare Wartburg Castle to the Island of Patmos, to which the wrath of Domitian, in former times, had banished the Apostle John... An hour's walk up the steep ascent brings the visitor to the summit, whence a glorious panorama opens to the view. A sea of rocks and wooded hills in every variety of form undulates around; whilst nearly a thousand feet below Eisenach is faintly discerned, appearing as a pretty little model of a German town - the whole forming as lovely a scene as is to he witnessed in Thuringia...The Duke of Saxe-Weimar has gone to great expense in restoring the principal part of Wartburg Castle to the same state it was in the fifteenth century'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Date

1862

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A09_414

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,6Mo (2,4Mo) / 33,2cm x 20,9cm / 3920 x 2463 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel Germany hill hills building buildings house houses architecture German arts country art British geography castle color fortifications fortification location century Britain newspapers press print B&W tourist attraction engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century Thuringia tourism The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN Eisenach ILN Wartburg Castle newspaper landscape Unknown Erfurt Martin Martin Luther Luther 19th-century Brother Martin