The remains of the Castle can be visited
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Desenberg Castle
Desenberg Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the Desenberg, which rises in the Warburger Börde not far from Daseburg, a district of the city of Warburg, in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Höxter in Germany.
A fortification is said to have existed on the 343.6 m above sea level Desenberg as early as 766. Henry the Lion had his vassal Widukind von Schwalenberg besieged there in 1168. Miners from Goslar are said to have dug a tunnel to cut off Widukind's water supply.
After the imperial ban on Henry the Lion in 1180, the Archbishop of Cologne, Philipp I von Heinsberg, besieged and captured the castle in 1181.
During the Hessian-Paderborn Feud (1464–1471), Landgrave Ludwig II of Lower Hesse besieged the castle in 1464, but without success. When the Lords Spiegel zum Desenberg changed sides during the feud, Bishop Simon III of Paderborn was forced to storm and largely destroy the castle in 1470. Afterwards, the Spiegel zum Desenberg had to finally take the castle as a fief from the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn.
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The hilltop castle had an outer bailey, a main castle of about 1050 square meters with a round, about twelve-meter-high keep with a diameter of 6.7 meters and a wall thickness of 1.3 meters at the highest point of the mountain, as well as a multi-story building (palas?) on the polygonal curtain wall. The keep and wall remains of the building are still preserved from the complex. The tower can be climbed via a metal spiral staircase since 1991 and offers a good view over the Warburger Börde from its viewing platform.
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