The chapel is an interesting combination of the Romanesque and Gothic styles, and the castle walls are partly stone and brick and partly wood and covered-brick fachwerk . Martin Luther may be the most famous inhabitant of the Wartburg, and the rooms where he worked and stayed were a destination of pilgrimages for hundreds of years. In fact, the names of many pilgrims are carved into the walls. Some of them date back to the 1600s. Luther's room also contains the whale vertebra he used as a footstool.
Artwork enhances the sense of history.
The story of St. Elizabeth is told through a series of frescoes, and the saga of German political history is portrayed in murals around the ladies' warming room. Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and other Reformation artists depict events and people of the Reformation. Many of Cranach's famous portraits of Luther are here. The experience at the castle is more than just the tour.