Wolfenbüttel: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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Wolfenbüttel: Guide
Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the Oker river, about 13 kilometres south of Braunschweig (city)|Brunswick.
History
It is not known when Wolfenbüttel was founded, but it was first mentioned in 1118 as the water castle Wulferisbutle. The first settlement was probably restricted to a tiny islet in the Oker river.
Wolfenbüttel became the residence of the Duke of Brunswick|dukes of Brunswick in 1432. Over the following three centuries it grew to be a centre of the arts, and personages such as Michael Praetorius, Gottfried Leibniz, and Gotthold Lessing|Gotthold Ephraim Lessing lived there. The ducal court eventually returned to Brunswick in 1753 and Wolfenbüttel subsequently lost in importance.
The Battle of Wolfenbüttel, part of the Thirty Years' War, was fought here in June 1641, when the Swedes under Carl Gustaf Wrangel|Wrangel and the Hans Christoff von Königsmarck|Count of Königsmark defeated the Austrians under Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Leopold of Habsburg.
Main sights
The baroque (castle). Today part of the building is used as a school, and the former state apartments are open to the public as a museum.
(HAB), the ducal library, has one of the largest and best-known collections of ancient books in the world. It is especially rich in bibles, Gothic.
Today Wolfenbüttel is smaller than the neighbouring cities of Brunswick, Salzgitter, and Wolfsburg, but, because it was largely undamaged by the war, is rich in half-timber buildings, many dating several centuries back, and still retains its historical character.
Culture
Wolfenbüttel is home of several departments of the and the , an organisation for the study of Lessing's works It is also home to the Niedersächsische Staatsarchiv, the state archives of Lower Saxony.
The herb liqueur Jägermeister is also a specialty of Wolfenbüttel.
Twin cities
- Sèvres, France
- Kenosha, United States of America|USA
- Satu Mare, Romania
- Kamienna Góra, Poland
A bridge in Wolfenbüttel is named after each of these cities.
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