Eschenbach
WOLFRAM VON (esh'en-bäch), a German mediæval poet; born of a noble family in Eschenbach, near Ansbach, Bavaria, in the second half of the 12th century. He was one of the most prominent minstrels at the ESK was begun in 1563 and finished in 1584, and was intended to serve as a palace, splendid chapel with three naves 320 mausoleum, and monastery. It has a feet long and 320 in height to the top of tomb, is a magnificently decorated octa- the cupola. The pantheon, or royal the cupola.
The pantheon, or royal gon chamber 36 feet in diameter by 38 feet in height, in the eight sides of which Its library, previous to the sack by are numerous black marble sarcophagi.
French in 1808, contained 30,000 printed and 4,300 MS. volumes, mainly treasures by the of Arabic literature . In 1872 the escurial was struck by lightning and partially burned.
ESCALATOR-STEP TYPE court of Hermann, Landgraf of Thuringia; and his epics rank among the greatest German imaginative works. Besides several love songs he wrote "Parcival," "Wilhelm von Orange ," and "Titurel."
He died between 1218 and 1225.