![]() Bartsch concludes that he was a younger son, and that while the family seat was at Eschenbach, Wolfram's home was the insignificant estate of Wildenburg (to which heĪlludes), now the village of Wehlenberg. Certainly he was a poor man, for he makes frequent and To the small nobility, for he alludes to men of importance, such as the counts of Abenberg, and of Wertheim, as if he had been in their service. Was the place of his burial, and so late as the 17th century his tomb was to be seen in the church of Ober-Eschenbach, which was then the burial place of the Teutonic knights. The Eschenbach from which he derived his name was most probably Ober-Eschenbach, not far from Pleinfeld and Nuremberg there is no doubt that this Wolfram and his patron appear as characters in Wagner's Tannhäuser. Poems but is chiefly respected for his narrative poems, including Parzival, the work that is often said to have inspired Wagner's He was probably a member of a Bavarian family of the lower nobility who served first at the court of a Franconian lord and later that of Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia. He minnesinger Wolfram von Eschenbach (died c.1230?) is generally regarded as the greatest of the medieval German narrative poets. Right: Wolfram von Eschenbach as depicted in Die Minnesinger in Bildern der Manessischen Handschrift ![]()
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