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 ====Wartburg Castle====
 {{ :un:2016_de_wart02_drawbridge.jpg?direct&180|Drawbridge}}
-A UNESCO World Heritage site, this dates to 1067 AD, according to the stories.  Here my son is under a bona fide drawbridge - the only way in and out of the castle.
+A UNESCO World Heritage site, this dates to 1067 AD, according to the stories.  I could include a dozen pictures easily, but since it isn't directly related to the Ungerechts, I'll just include a couple.  It was built for defense, on top of a hill, but was never besieged, other than by time and neglect in the 1600's and 1700's.  Because of its connection to Martin Luther and general importance, it was refurbished in the 1800's.  Here my son is under a walkway and a bona fide drawbridge - the only way in and out of the castle.
-{{:un:2016_de_wart03_lookingup.jpg?direct&200|Wartburg Castle}}
+{{:un:2016_de_wart03_lookingup.jpg?direct&210|Wartburg Castle}}
 <= Looking up at the castle from under the drawbridge.
 {{ :un:2016_de_wart19_southtower1318.jpg?direct&240|South Tower, 1318}}
-The South Tower was built in 1318. About 1/3 of the way up is a door, that is the top of the dungeon pit where they threw prisoners.  One prisoner was Fritz Erbe, an early Anabaptist who was imprisoned from 1540 until his death in 1548, for refusing to baptize his children as infants.  The Anabaptist movement gave rise to the Amish and Mennonites, who believe in adult baptism.  Interestingly, we have Erbe in our Ungerech family tree, but probably not related.
+The South Tower was built in 1318. About 1/3 of the way up you can see a door hidden in the shadows, that is the top of the dungeon pit where they threw prisoners.  One such prisoner was Fritz Erbe, an early Anabaptist who was imprisoned from 1540 until his death in 1548, for refusing to baptize his children as infants.  The Anabaptists, who believed in adult baptism, gave rise to the Amish and Mennonites.  Interestingly, we have an Erbe in our Ungerecht family tree, but we're probably not related to Fritz.
 {{ :un:2016_de_wart49_lutherroom.jpg?direct&210|Luther's room}}
 Martin Luther spent quite a bit of time in Eisenach, and after the Catholic church rejected his proposal for change and excommunicated him in 1521, he fled here.  This is the room where he spent most of his time, working on a German translation of the Bible.  The whale vertebra is original to his time here.
-See also my pictures of [[110_meiningen|Meiningen]], [[111_werrahelba|Helba]] and [[112_werrawalldorf|Walldorf]].
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+See also my pictures of: [[110_meiningen|Meiningen]], [[111_werrahelba|Helba]], [[112_werrawalldorf|Walldorf]], and Eisenach (you are here).

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