Warburg

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Warburg is a city in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the district Höxter. It has a population of about 25,000 citizens (10,000 within the city proper ), and is located at [51°30′N 9°10′E].

The city is remarkable for its ancient cityscape with a number of medieval mansions and three large churches, which owned it the inoffical title of the westphalian Rothenburg. It streches from the old city in a river valley to the new city on a flat hilltop. The Desenberg, a cone-shaped hill (which geologically is a dormant volcano) with a castle ruin overlooks the city.

First mentioned in 1036, Warburg became member of the Hanseatic League in 1364. The city began to decline in the 17th century with the Thirty Years' War but again rose to prominence as the capital of the Warburg District from 1816 until 1974. In 1975 the Warburg District merged with the Höxter District. In the same year, several adjoining independent municipalities were merged into the city of Warburg.

In the 16th century Warburg gave its name to the renowned jewish Warburg family of bankers. The perhaps most prominent Warburg was Paul Warburg (1868-1932), a persuasive advocate of central banking in the United States and intellectual father of the Federal Reserve System, who in 1914 was appointed to the first Federal Reserve Board by US President Woodrow Wilson and became its second vice-chairman in 1916.

Geography

Warburg's downtown, consisting of both the old city and new, is a hill town. Old City Warburg is located in the Diemel Valley, while the new city is located on the rise over the Diemel. Warburg municipal territory borders the Sauerland to the west and the foothills of the Eggegebirges to the northwest. To the north and northeast it is part of the Warburger Börde, while its southern boundary extends to the Diemel Valley.

Municipal Divisions

Warburg contains 16 boroughs:

Bonenburg (1,107 residents)
Calenberg (459 inhabitants)
Dalheim (95 inhabitants)
Daseburg (1,354 inhabitants)
Dössel (651 inhabitants)
Germete (997 inhabitants}
Herlinghausen (446 inhabitants)
Hohenwepel (683 inhabitants}
Menne (846 inhabitants)
Nörde (780 inhabitants)
Ossendorf (1,332 inhabitants)
Rimbeck (1,603 inhabitants)
Scherfede (3,105 inhabitants)
Warburg (10,663 inhabitants)
Welda (889 inhabitants)
Wormeln (652 inhabitants)

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