Wartburg, Tennessee
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Wartburg is a city in and the county seat of Morgan County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, Wartburg had a population of 848.
Morgan County Courthouse in Wartburg
View of Wartburg with Lone Mountain on the left
Kingston Street in Wartburg
Wartburg
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The Wartburg is a castle originally built in the Middle Ages. At an elevation of 410 metres in the state of Thuringia, Germany, it is situated on a southwest-facing precipice and overlooks the town of
Wartburg, Tennessee
…in until 1855. The new settlement, which had already been platted by East Tennessee Colonization Company agent Friedrich Guenther, was named after Wartburg Castle in Germany. The first six streets were initially named for European cities, but the names were changed within a few years to Rose, Church, Maidenland…
Wartburg in Eisenach
View of Wartburg from the east
The Luther Room in the Vogtei (bailiwick's house)
Wartburg, monk and nun, drawing by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1807)