Nibelung City
A Nibelungenstadt is a city or, more generally, a place that is related to the Nibelungs or the Nibelungenlied (e.g. express mention in the text) or claims to be. Except for places that are explicitly mentioned in the Nibelungenlied (e.g. Worms ), the question of whether the respective place is actually the setting in the legend is often controversial or the subject of research .
The title of the Nibelungenstadt serves primarily as a marketing instrument. For example, more than fifty cities or municipalities from Germany , Austria and Hungary are united in the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Nibelungenstädte” , in order to coordinate things at events and festivals. Among other things, the regular “Nibelung Days” are jointly organized; the first took place in Plattling , Worms and Freudenberg (July 2004).
Well-known Nibelung cities are:
- Alzey ( Volker von Alzey is a person from the Nibelungenlied)
- Beerfelden
- Fürth (Odenwald)
- Gernsheim
- Gran , Hungarian: Esztergom
- Grasellenbach (possible location of Siegfried's murder)
- Großmehring (place in Upper Bavaria → Danube translation of the Nibelungs)
- Hohenems , Austria (in 1755 the manuscript C of the Nibelungenlied was discovered in the palace of Hohenems, in 1779 the manuscript A.)
- Königswinter (place in Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen )
- Lindenfels
- Lorsch (after the manuscript C the place with Siegfried's coffin)
- Mautern (stage on the journey to Ofen )
- Miltenberg
- Passau (probable place of origin of the Nibelungenlied)
- Pförring (place in Upper Bavaria → reaching the Danube)
- Eferding (overnight stay in Kriemhilds )
- Plattling (mentioned in the Nibelungenlied)
- Pöchlarn ( Rüdiger von Bechelaren's headquarters; stage on the journey to Ofen )
- Traismauer (stage on the journey to Ofen )
- Tulln (stage on the journey to Ofen )
- Vienna (Kriemhild and Etzel celebrated their wedding here)
- Worms (seat of the Burgundy kings, central location of the plot in the first part of the Nibelungenlied)
- Xanten (residence of King Siegmund, Siegfried's father)
See also
literature
- Walter Hansen: Where Siegfried died and loved Kriemhild. The scenes of the Nibelungenlied. dtv Munich 2004