Lusamgarten

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Pietà from 1764 on the front of the Lusam Garden
Public information board of the city of Würzburg on the Lusamgärtchen

The Lusamgärtchen (also Lusamgärtlein ) is a small, walled inner courtyard , formerly called the Grashof , at Martinstrasse 4 on the north side of the Neumünster Church in Würzburg . It was originally laid out in the middle of the late Romanesque cloister of Neumünsterstift. The tomb for the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide is located in the garden .

After the Second World War , an original row of arcades in the Romanesque cloister (installed before the war in the Franconian Luitpold Museum in Maxstraße, where the grave of the poet Max Dauthendey was from 1930 to 1951 ) was initiated by the Würzburg Association for Improvement. V. brought back to their original place in the Lusamgärtlein.

Tomb for Walther von der Vogelweide

The cloister served as a burial place for the monastery well beyond the Middle Ages. It can be assumed that the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide was also buried here around the year 1230. Only information from the Würzburg protonotary Michael de Leone , who commissioned the Würzburg song manuscript , is known about the location of the grave and the Latin inscription . He gives the epitaph:

Pascua. qui volucrum. vivus. walthere. fuisti
Qui flos eloquij. qui palladis os. obiisti.
Ergo quod aureolum probitas tua possit habere.
Qui legit. hic. dicat. deus iustus miserere
Who was a pasture for the birds, Walther, in life
the blossoming of language, the mouth of wisdom, perish.
Hence, may your honesty be golden.
Whoever reads this, “Righteous God have mercy!” Should say.

This text is based on the partial translation in the Munich 2 ° Cod. Ms. 731 (Würzburg song manuscript [E]), fol. 191v added: Her walter uon der uogelweide. buried ze wirzeburg. zv the Nuwemunster in the grasehoue .

The grave was probably not lifted until the middle of the 18th century when the Neumünster Church was redesigned. Since 1930 a memorial stone by the sculptor Fried Heuler in the form of a stylized tumba has commemorated the poet in the Lusamgarten. As an inscription it bears the sentence coined by the Frankish poet Hugo von Trimberg in his epic The Renner : Her Walther von der Vogelweide, swer des vergaeze, who taet mir suffer.

On the top of the memorial stone, circular indentations are carved in the four corners as bowls for grains and water. Legend has it that Walther von der Vogelweide is said to have ordered that the birds were to be fed daily at his grave.

  • Southern part of the Lusamgarten

  • Tomb for Walther von der Vogelweide in the “Lusamgärtchen”, remains of the cloister of the former Neumünster collegiate monastery in Würzburg

  • Würzburg, Lusamgärtchen: The Würzburg musician Walter Vogel as minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide

Commemoration

Flowers for Walther von der Vogelweide on the Heuler memorial stone in the Lusamgärtchen in Würzburg on April 19, 2018

Today, fresh flowers lie permanently on the memorial stone, which Würzburgers in love or guests or people with lovesickness put down.

Movies

literature

  • Joachim Baumeister: retired poet. Walther von der Vogelweide. In: Kurt Illing (Ed.): In the footsteps of the poets in Würzburg. Self-published (print: Max Schimmel Verlag), Würzburg 1992, pp. 13–24; here: pp. 17–20.

Web links

Commons : Lusamgärtchen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralph Bauer: New World and Java. Max Dauthendey. In: Kurt Illing (Ed.): In the footsteps of the poets in Würzburg. Self-published (print: Max Schimmel Verlag), Würzburg 1992, pp. 65–80; here: p. 78 f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '38.7 "  N , 9 ° 55' 54.3"  E