Wolfram von Eschenbach
The castle thus became the setting for the legendary "Sängerkrieg", or Minstrels' Contest in which such "Minnesänger" as Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Albrecht von Halberstadt (the translator of Ovid) and many others supposedly took part in 1206/1207. The legend of this event was later used by Richard Wagner in his opera Tannhäuser.