Bird pasture

Vogelweiden or Vogelweidhöfe were places where birds, mostly young birds, were caught or trained. Birds that were needed for falcon hunting , which was very popular in the Middle Ages .

The term Vogelweide describes:

• Walther von der Vogelweide , a poet of the Middle Ages
• a bird tree that provides food for birds and in the broadest sense a bird hearth
• Vogelweide (Wels) , a district of the Upper Austrian city of Wels
• Vogelweide (Roman) , a novel by Uwe Timm
• Vogelweide settlement , Halle (Saale)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.