Movement of the students on the Wartburg in 1817

The first Wartburg festival (German: Wartburgfest) on October 18, 1817 was an important event in German history that took place at the Wartburg castle at Eisenach. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1522x1150, 1071 KB) Der Zug der Studenten zur Wartburg 1817 Radierung von unbekanntem Künstler Mitte des 19. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1522x1150, 1071 KB) Der Zug der Studenten zur Wartburg 1817 Radierung von unbekanntem Künstler Mitte des 19. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Wartburg in Eisenach Wartburg Castle is situated on a 1230-foot (410 m) precipitous hill to the southwest of and overlooking the town of Eisenach in Thuringia. ... Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. ...

After the war of liberation against France and Napoleon, many people were bitter about dreams of German unity shattered after the Congress of Vienna. Democratic reforms were stalled, and governments had cracked down on press freedom and rights of association. In 1815 the students of Jena founded the youth organization Teutonia in order to demostrate about Germany unity at the university. Many of them had also taken part as voluntary soldiers (Lützow Free Corps) on the fields against Napoleon. Jump to: navigation, search Napoleon I of France, by Jacques-Louis David. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Congress of Vienna was a conference between ambassadors from the major powers in Europe that was chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and held in Vienna, Austria, from October 1, 1814, to June 9, 1815. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Map of Germany showing Jena Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale. ... The Lützow Free Corps (German: Lützowsches Freikorps) was a voluntary force of the Prussian army during the Napoleonic Wars. ...

The German students demonstrated for a national state and a liberal Constitution and condemned reactionary forces in the newly recreated Germany states. On the occasion of the three-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's nailing of his theses and in memory of the fighting of the Battle of Nations at Leipzig, the student groups organized a festival at the Wartburg castle in Eisenach. A refuge stop for Martin Luther, the castle served as a symbol of German nationalism. Jump to: navigation, search Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) The Luther seal Martin Luther (November 10, 1483–February 18, 1546) was a German theologian, an Augustinian monk, and an ecclesiastical reformer whose teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran... Map of battle by 18 October 1813, from Meyers Encyclopaedia The Battle of Leipzig (October 16-19, 1813), also called the Battle of the Nations, was the largest conflict in the Napoleonic Wars and one of the worst defeats suffered by Napoleon Bonaparte. ... Jump to: navigation, search Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [▶] [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search Wartburg 311: in production between 1956 and 1965 Wartburg 312: in production in 1965. ... Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. ... Nationalism is an ethno- political ideology that sustains the concept of a nation- identity for an exclusive group of people. ...

A key event was a book-burning of reactionary literary works and symbols of Napoleon like a corporal's cane. This act was later used a justification for the Nazi book burnings. Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. ...

The event itself was used as a justification for further suppression of liberal forces, later organized at the Karlsbad Conference.

Some works burned during the bookburning

• Jean Pierre Frédéric Ancillon: Ueber Souverainitaet etc.
• F. v. Cölln: Vertraute Briefe. Freymüthige Blätter
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome: Deutschlands Crisis und Rettung im April und May 1813.
• Dabelow: Der 13e Artikel der deutschen Bundesacte
• Karl Ludwig von Haller: Restauration der Staatswissenschaft
• August von Kotzebue: Geschichte des deutschen Reichs
• Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten: Rede gesprochen am Napoleonstage 1800, Geschichte meines fünfzigsten Lebensjahres, and Vaterländische Lieder
• Carl Albert Christoph Heinrich von Kamptz: Codex der Gensd'armerie
• W. Reinhard: Die Bundesacte über Ob, Wann und Wie? deutscher Landstände
• Schmalz: Berichtigung einer Stelle in der Bredow-Venturinischen Chronik; und die beyden darauf
• Saul Ascher: Germanomanie
• Zacharias Werner: Martin Luther oder die Weihe der Kraft, Die Söhne des Thals
• K. v. Wangenheim: Die Idee der Staatsverfassung
• The Napoleonic Code
• Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae: Über den Code Napoleon
• Carl Leberecht Immermann: Ein Wort zur Beherzigung, 1814, (gegen die Burschenschaft zu Halle)