Fischart was one of the most important poets and publicists of the second half of the 16th century. Published and printed by his brother-in-law Bernhard Jobin in Strasbourg on 7 November 1588 eine

A valuable description
of the well-remembered old and

warhafften verwunderlichen Geschicht:

From the now long-famous Theuren and Ge-
and austere Abentheurlicher Ritter

Mr. Petern von Stauffenberg
called Diemringer / from the
Orttenau near Rein

Only a few of these book copies have survived. A copy can be found in the Bavarian State Library. It comprises 169 pages with twenty chapters and pictures. The Oberkirch artist Manuela Bijanfar was commissioned by the Wine and Local History Museum in Durbach to paint and fire the six motifs above onto individual panes of glass using old glass painting techniques. These are combined with leaded glass to form a series of pictures.