Wartburg Castle World Heritage Site

Official name

Wartburg Castle | UNESCO

Country

Germany | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Eisenach, State of Thuringia (Thüringen)
50.9667° Lat, 10.3070° Lon | Map

Code

897

Time Zone

Europe/Berlin (CET, +0100)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1999. Wartburg Castle blends superbly into its forest surroundings and is in many ways 'the ideal castle'. Although it has retained some original sections from the feudal period, the form it acquired during the 19th-century reconstitution gives a good idea of what this fortress might have been at the height of its military and seigneurial power. It was during his exile at Wartburg Castle that Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German.