• Ludwig of Springer
• As it was created around Ludwig's soul
• The Vermaehlung of the children Ludwig and Elisabeth
• Heinrich the child of Brabant
• Friedrich with bitten baking
• Bread and salt segnet God
• Thalmann of Lunderstedt
• The countess of Orlamuende


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Ludwig of Springer

The brothers and friends Mark count Friedrichs complained land count Ludwigen to Thuringia and Hessen before the emperor on, of because of the frevelen act, which it had committed for the beautiful woman. They brought also so much with the emperor out that they should fahen the land counts, where they could get it. Thus ward it in the pin Magdeburg met and on the Giebichenstein with resounds to the hall gefuehret, where they kept it imprisoned over two years in a Kemnaten (stone tube) without chain. How it heard now that it would not like to get off the life, it called God and promised and praised to build a church in pc. Ulrichs honours into its recently bought city Sangerhausen, it from the emergency was thus helped. Because he ate however before heavy grief and did not drink, he had become siech; there he, one asked might have set for him its Seelgeraete1), eh then the emperor to country would come and him to kill would leave. And one of its secret servants, with put on he let describe: When it the Seelgeraete of dannen fuehrete that he would come the other day around noon with two Kleppern under the house to the Saale and waited its. Sat however with it on the Kemnate six respectable men, who guarded its. And as the time put on to come, he complained that violently would freeze him; did that because of much dresses and went saenftiglich in the Gemach up and down. The men played long while ago in the board, had on its Herumgehen not particular attention; meanwhile protected it down its servant with the two horses, there he ran to the window and jumped by the high stone into the Saale down there.
      The wind led it that it did not fall hard in the water, there washed the servant with the single Hengst to it. The land count vogue to horse, threw itself the wet dresses some of itself and ran on his white Hengst, which was called he the swan, to towards Sangerhausen. By this jump he is called Ludwig of Springer; God thanked and built a beautiful church, how it had gelobet. God gave Gnad it and its wife to her heart that they had Reu and wrong whether their sin.

1. Last will, will.

As it was created around Ludwig's soul

When now Ludwig the iron one had died, would be there would have his son, Ludwig of the mildness, gladly experienced from its father soul, like it around convenient, well or bad. That heard a knight the prince Hofe, that was poor on and had a brother, that was a pfaffe and a well-informed black art. The knight spoke to his brother: "dear brother, I please you that you want to experience from the devil, like it over the iron land count Seele is." There the pfaffe spoke: "I want to do it gladly, on that you the new gentleman the more in a friendly way acts." The pfaffe loaded the bad spirit and asked it for the soul. There the devil answered: "Willt you with me may do, I point them to you." The pfaffe wanted that, er's without damage to thus do would like; the devil oath that it would again-bring it healthy. After this it sat on the devil neck, led it within a short time to the place of the agony. There various agony, and in various way, saw of it inheriting component end it to the Pfaff much. There another devil called and spoke: "who is that, which you have on your neck to sit, bring him also." - "it is our friend", answered that one, "that I swore that I it not letze, but that I it the land count Seele wise." Zuhand turned the devil an iron glowing cover there off from a pit, since he mounted; and had a eherne trombone, which it put into the pit and it blew into it thus very much that the pfaffen deuchte, which whole world erschoelle and inherit-prayed. And after one while, when much transmitting and flaming with Schwefelgestank went out, the land count came driven into it also, gave themselves the pfaffen to look and spoke: "see, I are, I poor land count, because and your Herre here present; and God that ich's would have never been, wanted so constant agony must I drum suffer." The pfaffe spoke: "Mr., I is to you sent from your son that I should say to him, wie's around you done would be whether he would like to help you with possibly something." There it answered: "like it to me goes, have you probably gesehn; however solltu it knows, waer's that my children the places of worship, monasteries and other people would show their property, which I had removed from them against right by force that would be my soul a large assistance." There the pfaffe spoke: "you do not believe me this speech." There he said a landmark, which would not know anybody as her to him. And there ward the land count again to pits lowered, and the devil led the pfaffen again from dannen; that remained yellow and does not bleach that one hardly recognized him, like probably it its life did not lose. There it revealed the words and landmark, which had said their father to it; but did not want to return ward its soul little use, because it the property. Darnach handed the pfaffe all over its Lehen and ward a monk to Volkeroda.

The Vermaehlung of the children Ludwig and Elisabeth

Master Klingsor had read to waiting castle in the night, since Elizabeth was born to Hungary, from the stars that it should be vermaehlt the young Ludwig of Thuringia. In the year 1211 the far-famous land count Hermann sent wonderful messengers from man and Weiben to that kings in Hungary around his daughter Elizabeth that he would send it to Thuringia, to his son to the Ehgemahl. Merrily the messengers pulled to Ross and cars and unterwegens, by which landscape they came, wonderful were regaled and, when they arrived in Ungerland, from that king and to the queen lovely received. Andreas was a good, sittiger man, but the queen decorated her daughter flax also gold and silver to the journey and sent her to Thuringia in silver cradle, with silver bath tub and goldnen rings, also koestlichen covers from magenta and silk, bed garb, Kleinoden and all furniture. In addition much thousand Marks of gold, until that it became large, talented also the messengers plentifully and left to the land count to say that it confidently and in peace live. When now Elizabeth arrived with their Amme at Thuringia, there it was four years old, and Ludwig, their Friedel, was eleven years old. There it was hoechlich received and brought on the waiting castle, educated also with all diligence, until that the children came to their years. By the holy life of this Elizabeth and the miracles, which it performs in the country Hessen and Thuringia to waiting castle and Marburg, much would be to be written.

Heinrich the child of Brabant

When after land counts and king Heinrich1), relaxes long Zwiespalt had expired to death the Thuringian-hessian man trunk around the inheritance, whereby Thuringia and Hessen were from each other torn last. All Hessen and also many Thueringer explained themselves for Sophien, daughter of holy Elizabeth and vermaehlte duchess in Brabant, to their minor son, called Heinrich the child (born 1244), it for their true gentleman recognized. The Mark count von Meissen however addressed the country, because it from king Heinrichs mouth, whose sister son was he, erstorben would be, and attacked Thuringia with army strength. At that time everywhere war and robbery were in the country, and as the Mark count Eisenach conquered, was he, who according to people legend, a man, who it held with the hessian part, from rock the waiting castle down centrifuges to have left, these however in air have still loud proclaimed. "Thuringia belongs nevertheless to the child of Brabant!"
      Sophia pulled from Hessen forwards iron oh; since one the gates locked and it did not want to let in, it took an axe and a blow in pc. Joergentor that one saw the landmark two hundred years after still in the oakwood.
      The chronicles tell, that man was a citizen out iron oh, named Welspeche, and because he huldigen do not want the Meissnern, twice thrown with the Blide over the burgmauer remained into the city, but intactly. When he remained alwaysFUL with his statement, he was down-hurled to third times and lost his life.

1. He was brother land count Ludwigs, had holy Elizabeth, whose widow treats, hard and Hermann, their only son, who legend after, poison to let.

Friedrich with bitten baking

Land count Albrecht in Thuringia, the Unartige, forgot to all ehlichen dear and loyalty at his Gemahel and hung themselves to another woman picture, Gunda of iron mountain mentioned. He would have assigned to the land countess gladly with poison, could not come however not to it; thus money promised to a donkey driver, which supplied it on the waiting castle daily the kitchen wood, that it should break it at night the neck, when whether it would have done the devil. When now the time intended for it came, ward the donkey driver fear for and meant: Whether I am probably poor, I nevertheless pious, honest parents had; am I to become now a Schalk and kill my princess? Finally it had to it, secretly in the land countess chamber led, there fell it before the bed to its feet and said: "Gnadet, loves Fraue!" She spoke: "who are you?" It called itself. "you have done which, are you trunken or mad?" The donkey driver answered: "be silent and guess/advise me! Because my gentleman was called me you to kill; which we begin jetzo that we keep both the life?" There she spoke: "go and hot mine yard masters to me coming." The yard master gave her the advice to open themselves to the hour and separate from its children to. There the land countess at their Soehnlein bed sat down and cried; but the yard master and their wives penetrated into her to hurry. Since it could not be now different, it gesegnete their children, seized the oldest, named Friedrich, and kissed it oftermal; and from ardent, muetterlichen hearts it bit it in baking that it got of it a scar, which it time life keep. Therefore also it arises for it that one genennet it Friedrich with bitten baking. There it wanted to also bite the other son; that resisted it the yard master and spoke: "want you the children to kill?" She spoke: "I it bit, when it becomes large that it mean misery on and this separating intends."
      Thus it took its Kleinode and went on the knight house, where it down-let the yard master with women, a farm servant and the donkey driver at ropes the window. Still the same night fled it on the Kreinberg, which heard to it times the Hersfelder abbott; from there it left the office man geleiten until Fulda. The abbott received it ehrbarlich and left her reliably geleiten to towards Frankfurt, where it took lodging in a virgin monastery, but already in the following year before misery died. It lies to Frankfurt buried.

Bread and salt segnet God

It is a common custom among us Germans that that, which holds a Gasterei says after the meal: "it was not much to the best, takes in such a way before dear." Now it carried too that a prince on the hunt was, hastened after a game and got off his servants, thus that it one day and one night in the forest erred. Finally it arrived at a charcoal burner hut, and the owner stood in the Tuere. There the prince spoke, because him hungerte: "luck too, man! Which you have to the best?" The charcoal burner answered: "Ick hebbe God un all ways wol (enough)." - "gives in such a way, what you have", spoke the prince. There the charcoal burner went and brought in a to hand the piece bread, in the other one a plate with salt; that took the prince and ate, because he was hungry. It wanted to be gladly grateful, but it did not have money with itself; therefore it replaced some stirrup, which was from silver, and gave it to the charcoal burner; then he asked it, he would like to bring him back on right way, which also happened.
      When the prince was come home, it sent servants, who had to get this charcoal burner. The charcoal burner came and brought the given stirrup also; the prince welcomed it and to tables sits, also confidently its: it are to happen to it no wrong. Under the meal the prince asked: "man, it was these days a gentleman with you; see around, is the same here also over the board?" The charcoal burner answered: "Mi ducht, ji suend et wol suelvest", pulled with it the stirrup out and continued to speak: "ji duet does thing want to wedderhebben?" - "no", the prince, "that answered should have been given you, let dir's only taste and was merry." How the meal had happened and had risen one, the prince went to the charcoal burner, struck him on the shoulder and spoke: "now, man, take in such a way before dear, it not much to the best was." There the charcoal burner trembled; the prince asked it, why; it answered, it might not say it. When however the prince insisted on it, it spoke: "Och Herre! Ase ji saeden, et would be nig vaele tom best west, DO grant de Duefel respected ju!" - "that is true", said the prince, "in such a way wants I to you to also say, what I seen. When I came before your hut and asked you, what you would have to the best, and you answered: ' God and all enough!' there I saw an angel of God behind you. Therefore I ate from bread and salt and was content; also now no more does not want to say in the future here that not much to the best been."

Thalmann of Lunderstedt

Thalmann of Lunderstedt lived in enmity with Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. Once this knight was hard pressed by his enemies between Jena and Kahla to the hall with the Rothenstein, thus that it seemed impossible to escape. In the emergency blew up however Thalmann with the Gaul of rock into the hall and escaped lucky. The Thalmann had it successfully; Hundredthousands are not to gluecken it probably.

The countess of Orlamuende

Petrol, count to Orlamuende, died 1340 (after other 1275, 1280, 1298) with leaving a young widow, Agnes, a gebornen duchess of Meran, with which it had produced two children, a Soehnlein of three, and a daughter flax of two years. The widow sat on the Plassenburg and remembered to vermaehlen itself again. Einstens was behind-broken the speech Albrechts of the beautiful one, castle counts to it to Nuernberg, which had said: "gladly want I to the beautiful woman mine body to turn, where four eyes would not be!" The countess believed, he meant with it their two children, her to conditions of the new marriage in the way; there it, blindly mentioned by their passion, laid on a service man, Hayder or Hager, and won it with rich gifts that it would like to kill both the child flax. After the people legend now the children are to have flattered to this Meuchelmoerder and ask him fearfully. "dear Hayder, let me live! I want to give you Orlamuenden, also Plassenburg of the new, it is not to gereuen you ", did not speak the Knaeblein; daughter flax however: "dear Hayder, let me live, I wants you all my docking to give." The murderer was thereby not agitated and achieved the Untat; when it had aligned later still andre pieces of boy and imprisoned on the torture was, it, however much the murder of the young Mr. regret, admitted it which in its offering it had nevertheless already known that it rule to out-assign had, so gereue it still a hundred times more, if he think of the innocent child words of the Maegdleins. The bodies of the two children were buried in the monastery Himmelskron and are pointed for the eternal memory of the occurence as a Heiligtum the Pilgrimen.
      After another legend the countess is to have killed the children themselves, and to have put needles into their tender brain bowls. The castle count however had meant under the four eyes its two parents and married after the countess nevertheless not. Unite according to went they, from their conscience gepeinigt, barefoot to Rome and died on the place, as soon as them returned home, before the Himmelskroner Kirchtuere. Still more usually however it is told that she went to one and a half miles in shoes, inwendig occupied with needles and nails, from Plassenburg to Himmelskron and down-fell directly with the entrance into the church dead. Their spirit is to go around in the lock.