Warberg Castle

As can be seen from a Merian engraving, the castle was surrounded by ramparts, a high wall, and a moat. Access today is via a bridge, beneath which the now drained moat is located. There was a lower and an upper castle. The gate entrance behind the bridge is in the lower castle. In the lower area of the lower castle stands a medieval chapel. In 1346, it was documented as a house of worship dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Nicholas. The upper castle, situated on an earthen mound with a mighty keep, still shows the character of a fortification. The keep has a height of 19 meters and a base area of 8 by 8 meters. It was surrounded by a three-story manor house, of which only the lowest structural parts remain today. It is presumed that stone material from the earlier Warburg was used for the construction of the castle complex. Only earthen ramparts remain of this castle site today.

After the Warburg, located two kilometers away, was destroyed on New Year's Eve 1199 by Archbishop Ludolf von Kroppenstedt of Magdeburg, the Lords of Warberg built Warberg Castle at a new location during the first decades of the 13th century. The keep of the complex undoubtedly belongs to the original constructions. Around it, the Barons of Warberg built a manor house in the 14th century, which was severely damaged during the Thirty Years' War.

Duke August of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel seized Warberg in 1650 as an expired fief, after the castle had already come into the possession of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 30 years earlier.

After Warberg became a state domain in 1918, the "Schulverein Reichs-Landhandelsschule" acquired the castle complex in 1938 and had it extensively rebuilt until 1942 to operate the "Reichshandelsschule" there. During the reconstruction measures, little consideration was given to the historical building substance of the castle.

After the complex served as a military hospital during World War II and as a tuberculosis hospital for the Helmstedt district from 1948 to 1955, Warberg Castle has served as a training center for the "Bundeslehranstalt Burg Warberg," a private technical college for agricultural trade, since 1955.

Since 1999, renovation work on the upper castle has been carried out with the participation of the "Freundeskreis Burg Warberg," lasting until 2004. In 2005, further preservation measures took place on the lower castle.