Warberg Castle
| Warberg Castle | ||
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 Inner courtyard of Warberg Castle with keep |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | intact and well-preserved complex | |
| Standing position : | Aristocratic residence | |
| Place: | Warberg | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 11 '0.2 " N , 10 ° 54' 59.8" E | |
| Height: | 141 m above sea level NN | |
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The Burg Warberg is located in the municipality Warberg on the eastern edge of the ridge Elm in the eastern Lower Saxony . The moated castle was founded in the first decades of the 13th century by the nobles von Warberg, whose ancestral home it was for centuries. It is a successor to the old Warberg Castle, which was destroyed in 1199 and located two kilometers southwest on the Elmhang .
construction
As can be seen on a Merian engraving, the castle was surrounded by ramparts, a high wall and a moat . Today the access leads over a bridge under which the now drained moat is located. There was a lower and an upper castle. The gate entrance behind the bridge is in the Niederburg. In the lower part of the Niederburg there is a medieval chapel . In 1346 it was mentioned in a document as a house of God dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Nicholas . The lying on a bank of earth upper castle with a mighty keep still shows the character of an attachment . The keep is 19 meters high and has a base area of 8 by 8 meters. It was surrounded by a three-story mansion , of which only the lowest components have survived today. It is believed that stone material from the earlier Warburg was used to build the castle. Only earth walls are left of this castle site today.
history
After Warburg, two kilometers away, was destroyed on New Year's Eve in 1199 by the Archbishop of Magdeburg , Ludolf von Kroppenstedt , the nobles of Warberg built Warberg Castle in a new location during the first decades of the 13th century. The keep of the complex was undoubtedly one of the first buildings. Around this, the barons of Warberg built a manor house in the 14th century, which was badly damaged during the Thirty Years' War .
Duke August von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel moved in Warberg in 1650 as a settled fiefdom , after the castle had come into the possession of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 30 years earlier .
1758, the future Prussian took bailiff , Brunswick-lüneburgische Drost, entrepreneurs, Landesverbesserer and multiple domain and landowner Georg Wilhelm Wahnschaffe the domain Warberg, where he took his new office and residence in the castle (with distillery).
After Warberg had become a state domain in 1918 , the school association Reichs-Landhandelsschule acquired the castle complex in 1938 and had it extensively rebuilt by 1942 in order to run the Reichshandelsschule there. Little consideration was given to the historical structure of the castle during the renovation work.
After the facility served as a military hospital during the Second World War and as a tuberculosis hospital for the Helmstedt district from 1948 to 1955 , Warberg Castle has served as a training facility for the “Bundeslehranstalt Burg Warberg”, a private agricultural trade school, since 1955.
Since 1999, renovation work has been carried out on the upper castle with the participation of the “Freundeskreis Burg Warberg”, which lasted until 2004. In 2005, further maintenance measures were carried out on the Niederburg.
literature
- Hans Adolf Schultz : Castles and palaces of the Braunschweiger Land. Orphanage, Braunschweig 1980, ISBN 3-87884-012-8 .
- Michael Braune: Warberg, the "New Castle" . In: The Braunschweiger Land . Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany 34 , 1997, pp. 265–267.
- Gesine Schwarz: The knight seats of the old country of Braunschweig. Göttingen 2008, pp. 47-50.
Web links
- Entry by Sandy Bieler for Warberg, Neue Burg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Warberg Castle website
- Description of the castle in the Braunschweig-Ostfalen region
- The castle at Braunschweig tours
- Photos from Warberg Castle at the Photo Archive Photo Marburg