Warberg

Warberg is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt in Lower Saxony. It belongs to the Samtgemeinde North Elm headquartered in Süpplingen.

Geography

Warberg located in the Natural Park Elm Lappwald.

History

In 1202 was the first written record of the village, which is called in old deeds as " Werenberg " and " Werberghe ". Its name is attributed to the written in 1200 Wasserburg Warberg whose donjon is the most widely visible landmark of the place. The plant was to the 17th century owned by the Barons of Warberg. This was an important noble family, whose representatives held high offices in ministries, including as bishops, in Magdeburg, Halberstadt and Hildesheim. The decline began in the 16th century and 1650 was the debt rule Warberg as a completed fief to the Duke of Brunswick back of a princely office einrichtete here. In 1918 the Office Warberg state domain on whose land in 1936 in Nazi time a Neubauer settlement with seven courtyards in Lower Saxony style emerged. In Warberg there from June 1944 to January 1945 the camp external command Warberg, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, in which eight concentration camp prisoners in a former brewery building works do and had to spend the night in a barred room.

Mayor

The honorary mayor Klaus Dieter Blohm was elected on November 3, 2011.

Twinning

A partnership exists with the community Barneberg district Borde in Saxony -Anhalt since 14 July 1990.

Structures

• Warberg Castle - Medieval castle in the village
• Warburg Castle - Medieval castle ruins on the Elm

Regular events

• Maypole, always on April 30 on the reel Kamp
• Protect and folk festival, always in mid-June
• Christmas market in the castle Warberg, always the weekend before Christmas
• Pfingsttunier on the sports field in Warberg, every year on the weekend of Pentecost

Economy and infrastructure

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