Warburg

History

In the 4th millennium BC, there was a megalith culture in the Warburg area. In the 1st century AD, there were Germanic settlers south of the Desenberg. In the 8th century, there was a Saxon noble seat west of the town. In the 8th and 9th centuries came the Christianization of the Saxons in the Diemel area. The name Warburg was first mentioned in a document sometime around 1010, although archaeological finds have established that there were already people living in what is now Warburg by protohistoric times. The first definite documentary mention came in 1036. In the 11th century there was on the Warburger Burgberg ("Castle Mountain") the "Wartburg", under whose protection people settled. The castle was at first owned by Count Dodiko, whose estate, according to documents, passed in 1020 to the Bishop of Paderborn when the Count's only son met his end in an accident. Eventually, sometime between 1021 and 1033, the Emperor further granted to the bishop the Count's rights. About 1180, the Old Town was granted town rights. The castle hill offered a good view over the Diemel Valley, allowing a close watch on the ford that merchants had to cross going to Warburg and Paderborn. This ford on the Diemel was a crossroads of several ancient commercial roads and was crucial in the town's development into a central place. The Warburg New Town was founded in 1228–29 by Bernhard IV. zur Lippe, Bishop of Paderborn, to bolster his political position in the Diemel area against encroachment by the Bishop of Cologne. About 1239, the New Town had been built into a complete town in its own right, and the townsfolk there had full civil rights after the Dortmund and Marsberg models. In 1260, the New Town was granted the right to build a town wall, not only against armies from afar, but…

Geography

The main town, consisting of the Old Town (Altstadt) and the New Town (Neustadt) and bearing the same name as the whole town, is a hill town. While the Old Town lies in the Diemel Valley, the New Town rises on the heights above the Diemel. The Warburg municipal area borders in the west on the Sauerland and in the northwest on the Eggegebirge foothills, while in the north and northeast the Warburger Börde abuts the town and in the south stretches the Diemel Valley. Warburg consists of the following 16 centres: * Bonenburg (1,107 inhabitants) * Calenberg (459 inhabitants) * Dalheim (95 inhabitants) * Daseburg (1,354 inhabitants) * Dössel (651 inhabitants) * Germete (997 inhabitants) * Herlinghausen (446 inhabitants) * Hohenwepel (683 inhabitants) * Menne (846 inhabitants) * Nörde (780 inhabitants) * Ossendorf (1,332 inhabitants) * Rimbeck (1,603 inhabitants) * Scherfede (3,105 inhabitants) * Warburg (10,663 inhabitants) * Welda (889 inhabitants) * Wormeln (652 inhabitants)

Most-observed species

• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  374
• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  318
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  295
• White-breasted Nuthatch

  Sitta carolinensis Latham, 1790 · Aves
  211
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  203
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  202
• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  190
• Hairy Woodpecker

  Leuconotopicus villosus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  168

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2021-10-21
  30 km NW of Rocky Mountain House, Canada
• M 3.9 — 2019-03-10
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• M 3.8 — 2019-03-04
  9 km NW of Red Deer, Canada
• M 3.5 — 2015-06-02
  10 km NW of Rocky Mountain House, Canada