Vogelweide

Tannhäuser himself Wolfram von Eschenbach Biterolf Walter von der Vogelweide Whose poems did Wagner set as a song cycle that also formed a sketch for Tristan und Isolde?

The old city feels very Tyrolean, with its narrow Gothic arcaded streets, and picturesque squares dominated by statues of Germanic heroes - like the medieval minstrel, Walther von der Vogelweide.

Walther von der Vogelweide sums up the popular appreciation of the whole ecclesiastical body, from pope downward: “St. Peter’s chair is filled to-day as well As when ’twas fouled by Gerbert’s sorcery; For he consigned himself alone to hell, While this pope thither drags all Christentie.

Walthers von der Vogelweide s�mmtliche Gedichte, No. 110, p.

He was fond of the society of men of letters, and Walther von der Vogelweide and other Minnesingers were welcomed to his castle of the Wartburg.