In terms of its importance for German history, the Wartburg cannot be compared to any other single place. About 800 years ago, Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia lived in the castle.The stay of Martin Luther is of course much better known. In the years 1521 and 1522, the church reformer hid as "Junker Jörg" in the Wartburg and translated the New Testament of the Bible from the Greek original here in just eleven weeks. At the same time, he created the foundation for the uniform written German language.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the Wartburg several times after entering the castle for the first time in 1777.On October 18, 1817, 300 years after Luther posted his theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, the Jena Ur-Burschenschaft invited to the first Wartburg Festival. All of these events, which are closely linked to formative crossroads in German history, took place in the shadow of this proud castle near Eisenach.