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Wartburg by
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| Wartburg Theological Seminary was first founded by Johannes Konrad Wilhem Loehe, who was more commonly known as just Wilhem Loehe. He first got his idea from Pastor Wyneken who wanted the attention of the German Lutheran Catholics to the situation in America. After this, in 1853 Wartburg first resided on Garfield Ave. in Dubuque. At this time, however, Wartburg was only a teacher training institution, based on Wartburg college in Waverly, Iowa. | |
| Then, in about 1854, Wartburg had its second home, St. John's Lutheran Church, on the corner of White and 16th St. At the end of the school year in 1856 the decision had been made to relocate the seminary to St. Sebald, before the school year in 1857. | |
| This was Wartburg's third location. This must have been one of the better areas for them to move because they stayed at St. Sebald's until somewhere in the early 1870s. | |
| Around 1874 Wartburg moved to its fourth location in Mendota, Illinois. Nominees came in so quickly, they had 48 graduates ready for ordination between 1876 and 1879. | |
| Thirty years after Wartburg moved to St. Sebald (1859), they moved back to Dubuque, and fused the Emerson mansion for its fifth home. This mansion was used for the next 100 years as its home. | |
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| Then, in 1989, Wartburg had its current location opened. many of the rooms were named after its many founders and professors. | |
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Bibliography Field Trip to Wartburg Life Together at Wartburg, Weiblen, William |
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