The New York herald., 1874-11-07

OF his contemporaries respecting the place OF his
birth. HIS clio. singers always admitted him to
hrs wonderful poem OF ssTristan.n To his success
sors ne became IN, ,del, and, later. q legend; LOT
ms memory existed as long as did the minDe-
singers. until they gave way to the more rrosaic
master singers. They all admitted, however that
Walther was Of noble blrih; they gsse nim the
or ''kuight" while the minnesingers OF lower de.
sent were simply styled s'meistern" or masters"
TINS lac! sd gIsE s9s sSaag SSaSusSS sSs'
but that his parents were poor and belonged to
what was called the Dienstadel or servi AIRY mo-
Pieifrer, from which he received has surname
must nave been very modest one, as ne
There was a village. or larger place, with
tins name known, though districts, sach As Noge-
10 o se aea aeo be
TINS farm must have existed Ia the lyro he be-
neved, rom STUDY OF the songs Oh Walther Won
Tyrol mlnnesingers from the Eisack district. who
must have had considerable intercourse with the
tnnats enough to nnd In the Vienna Imperial
Library an old manuscript referring to ''toge-
welde" between Alt,ewaide and schellenoerg,
and an Augustine monk Mairhoier, OF Brlxen,
hearing OF the discovery began TO m Ike researches
on the southern dechvity OF he Brenner. In the
communal oil Telies, an hours distance westward
OF oterzing, he found q forest divided into TWO
parts, the one called the yorder yogelweIde. the
nor hut could be found. Pie ner, not at all dis
couraged. still asserted tnat VOgelweide's home
must DC nearer seven Ia udyb journey tTOW
TeIles,. Priest Johann Haider in Layen. caring
OF the V0geweide discussions, called attention to
two VOge lwelde- Hole, or firmS existing IN the
Layerer Med and the nelRhDOrb hood correspond
ing 70 many poetic descriptions lett by Walther
OF ais youth, the savans OF the Tyrol came to the
conclusion that they were
AT LAST ON TIM PROPER TRACK
One OF these farms, the lnner-vogelweide-Ho
was found to have been earneT attached to
ieuda poss ssion II IS one OF the oldest esrates
o. the vicinity, and up to the year As Aus>er Red
had to pay tw1 parts OF the tthes to the Inner
Vogelwelde-Hof. The lnner-vogeweide-H -Hof IS
romantically situated. Below ", on the western
dechvitY. n0ws the klsack, which here, enlarged
by the rapid Groedner Bach, 1ows to the SOUTH
whose murnurlng recalls one OF Walther's lines
OF his youth-"Ica hort Elm WaSSer tOsen''-whe
seven, where Leutold sang, lies only few miles
distant, in the same valley.
The Tyrol savans became unanimous that they
had found Waither's birthplace in TINS Inner-Vo-
geiwelde-Ho aud the German scholars seem 10
have acquesced IN the discovery. SO 1t was ar
ranged that on the Sd OF OCTOBER marble tablet
old house In the Layener Med. and q few days ago
the interesting ceremony connected with its IN
auguraton TOOK place. Early on the morning OF
the Sd the guests assembled It the railroad depot
new Groedner road to the lnner-N Nogeiweloe-H0i,
where they assembled near the house. The Brlxen
Ledertael anu the Botzen singers Joined In rem
derlng one o! Vogelweide's poems, entitled seer
Then followed an address OF welcome
by Professor lingerie, OF Innsbruck, and
aiter more singing the iestal speech
was delivered by Professor SchrOtt, OF Munich,
singers poem. Then q cnorus from Walther's
"May Joys,n composed by HerbecK, was sung,
followed by music and song and banquet at
klausen and an excur SION TO the Monastery OF
ceremony, apparently. The marble table contains
the simple inscription