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Wartburg

Castle near Eisenach in Thuringia, Germany, where Luther hid in 1521 and 1522.

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Martin Luther began his German New Testament at the Wartburg.

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  1. Dec 1521 – Feb 1522 Luther's German New Testament (1522) written at Wartburg
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  1. The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, by Preserved Smith, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (scan on the Internet Archive), 1911. Scholarship & press
    The Wartburg, about a mile south of Eisenach, is one of the finest old Gothic castles in Germany.
  2. Luther's Bible Translations - 1522: the September Testament and the December Testament (Gruber Rare Books Collection), Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, JKM Library. Scholarship & press
    He had begun that during his stay at the Wartburg, in eleven weeks from December 1521 to February 1522, but it was revised in collaboration with Melanchthon and others after he had returned to Wittenberg.
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