Warberg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Warberg (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′  N , 10 ° 55 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Helmstedt
Joint municipality :	North Elm
Height :	143 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.01 km 2
Residents:	821 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	102 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38378
Area code :	05355
License plate :	HE
Community key :	03 1 54 025
Association administration address:	Steinweg 15 38373 Süpplingen
Website :	www.warberg.de
Mayor :	Klaus Dieter Blohm
Location of the municipality of Warberg in the Helmstedt district

Warberg is a municipality in the Helmstedt district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the combined municipality of Nord-Elm with its seat in Süpplingen .

geography

Warberg is located in the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park .

history

Warberg was first mentioned in a document in 1202. The place is also called "Wereberg" and "Werberghe" in old documents. The village name is on the 1200 as Wasserburg resulting Burg Warberg due whose dungeon is the highly visible symbol of the village. The complex was owned by the noblemen of Warberg until the 17th century . It was an important noble family, whose representatives held high offices in church services, u. a. dressed as bishops in Halberstadt (2 ×) and Minden and rose to become imperial princes. The most important member of the family, however, was the Grand Master of the Order of St. John Hermann von Warberg, who ruled Brandenburg as governor of the Grand Prior in Germany around the middle of the 14th century.

The in earlier times as "reichsunmittelbar" applicable Warberger had their castle and other allodial as so-called " sun fief held", was thus expressed that they had this by anyone except the Sun fief. They did not see themselves of ministerial origin and asserted themselves in the Principality of Braunschweig as the most important noble family. So they became the spokesman for the nobility. The nobles of Warberg were also typical losers in the sovereign consolidation process. They lost their independence in a dispute with the Guelph Heinrich the Younger . In 1650 the indebted Warberg rule was returned to the Duke of Brunswick as a settled fiefdom, who set up the royal office of Warberg here.

In 1918 the office became a state domain , on whose land a new farmer settlement with seven farms in the Lower Saxony style was built in 1936 during the time of National Socialism . From June 1944 to January 1945 there was the Warberg concentration camp external command in Warberg , an external command of the Neuengamme concentration camp , where eight concentration camp prisoners had to carry out construction work in a former brewery and spend the night in a barred room.

politics

mayor

The honorary mayor Klaus Dieter Blohm was elected on November 3, 2011 and re-elected in the 2016 local elections.

Town twinning

A partnership has existed since July 14, 1990 with the community of Barneberg in the district of Börde in Saxony-Anhalt .

Buildings

Inner courtyard of Warberg Castle

• Warberg Castle - Medieval castle complex in the village
• Alte Burg Warburg - Medieval castle ruins on the Elm in the community-free area of ​​Schöningen west of Warberg

Regular events

• Raising the maypole on April 30th on Haspelkamp, ​​then the fire station on Driftweg
• Schützen- und Volksfest, last weekend in June
• Christmas market at Warberg Castle, the weekend before Christmas
• Whitsun tournament on the sports field in Warberg on the Whitsun weekend

Economy and Infrastructure

Warberg is west of the federal highway 244 , which leads from Helmstedt to Wernigerode .

Personalities

• Wilhelm Semler (1844–1929), lawyer and President of the Braunschweig State Parliament

Web links

Commons : Warberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Warberg in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Warberg community
• Warberg on Braunschweig tours
• The Warburg im Elm, predecessor of the castle in Warberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ↑ Hans Hartmann, Die Edelherren zu Warberg, 2001.
3. ↑ Joachim Lehrmann : Robber barons between Heide, Harz and Weser , Lehrte 2007, Lehrmann-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-9803642-6-3 , p. 26
4. ↑ Marc Buggeln: In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (Ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 531.