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Wewelsburg
Sign in to saveWewelsburg () is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren, Westphalia, in the Landkreis of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The castle has a triangular layout, with three round towers connected by massive walls. After 1934 it was used by the SS under Heinrich Himmler and was to be expanded into a complex which would serve as the central SS cult-site.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Wewelsburg
- Building.image
- Wewelsburg2010 b (cropped).jpg
- Building.caption
- Wewelsburg, seen from the Alme valley
- Building.pushpin_map
- North Rhine-Westphalia#Germany
- Building.pushpin_label
- Wewelsburg
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- Location of Wewelsburg
- Building.building_type
- Castle
- Building.architectural_style
- Renaissance
- Building.owner
- District of Paderborn
- Building.current_tenants
- Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, Youth hostel
- Building.location_town
- Wewelsburg
- Building.location_country
- Germany
- Building.construction_start_date
- 1603
- Building.completion_date
- 1609
- Building.renovation_date
- 1650–1660 19th century1930s/1940s1948/19491973–1975
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Startseite - Kreismuseum Wewelsburg
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Encyclopedic overview
29 sectionsContents
- History
- Earlier structures
- Current structure
- Prince-bishops of Paderborn
- Prussian state ownership
- District of Büren ownership
- Nazi era
- Wewelsburg SS School
- Fields of activity
- Crew
- Redesign and reconstruction
- Directors
- Other activities
- Financing
- Bans on visits and publicity
- Construction and modifications after 1938
- Meetings of SS-Leaders
- Death's head rings
- SS plans
- North Tower
- Blasting operation
- Members
- Legends and interpretations
- Niederhagen Camp
- Post-war
- See also
- Notes
- Footnotes
- External links
Wewelsburg () is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren, Westphalia, in the Landkreis of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The castle has a triangular layout, with three round towers connected by massive walls. After 1934 it was used by the SS under Heinrich Himmler and was to be expanded into a complex which would serve as the central SS cult-site.
After 1941 plans were developed to enlarge it to be the so-called "Centre of the World". In 1950 the castle reopened as a museum and youth hostel. (The youth hostel is one of the largest in Germany.) The castle today hosts the Historical Museum of the Prince Bishopric of Paderborn and the Wewelsburg 1933–1945 Memorial Museum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wewelsburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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