Der letzte Held von Marienburg

letzte Held von Marienburg, Der, a tragedy by J. von Eichendorff, published in 1830. It is written in the main in blank verse, but some scenes in the first three acts are in prose. Its subject is the unsuccessful struggle of Heinrich von Plauen, High Master of the Teutonic Order (see Deutscher Orden), against disaffection and corruption in the Order in the early 15th c. Eichendorff was drawn to the subject through being associated as a civil servant with Theodor von Schön, who was responsible for the rebuilding and restoration of the Order's Castle at Marienburg.