Discover 9 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Warburg (Germany). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Museum im Stern, Fügeler, and Mor Jakob von Sarug. Also, be sure to include St. Johannes Baptist in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Warburg (North Rhine-Westphalia).
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Museum im Stern
The Museum im Stern is the town museum of the town of Warburg. It was founded in 1968 and is housed in Haus Stern, a former medieval nobleman's farm in Warburg's new town. In 1988, the attic was converted into exhibition and lecture space and the entire building was modernized for sole use as a museum and town archive.
Address: 35 Sternstraße, Warburg
Fügeler
Mor Jakob von Sarug
The Dominican Order was located in Warburg for over 700 years with interruptions.
The mendicant order of the Dominicans - Ordo Praedicatorum, "Order of Preachers" - founded in 1215 was called to Warburg by Bishop Otto von Rietberg in 1281. On the feast day of St. John the Baptist, June 24, 1281, they moved into an episcopal house in the neighborhood of the old town church. The settlement was confirmed as a convent by the General Chapter of the Order. Right at the beginning of their stay, there was opposition to the settlement due to envy and competitiveness. This dispute was aggravated by the fact that the bishop signed over the old town church of St. Mary in vinea to the Dominicans, dissolved the old town parish and united the old town parishioners with the new town parish. This led to a conflict between the Old Town parishioners and the bishop. The conflict was defused when the Dominicans built a new building on the hilltop and abandoned the Old Town parish. A convent school was established on the new Dominican premises, which later developed into the Gymnasium Marianum.
In 1810, the order was legally suppressed by a decree of King Jérôme Bonaparte, and the subsequent Prussian occupation dissolved the monastery and school in 1824. The property was confiscated by the state, the buildings nationalized. The school was reopened in 1826 as the ''Königliches Progymnasium zu Warburg''.
At the end of the 19th century, the Dominicans returned to Warburg. They needed a training center for their junior staff. In 1908, they moved into the new building that had been erected from 1903 on the newly created Klosterstraße. In 1993, following reorganizations in the Province of the Order, this monastery was abandoned in favor of the Convent of St. Paul in Worms. The last prior of the monastery in Warburg was Father Burkhard Runne (OP).
The town of Warburg received the copy of Hans Grüninger's Bible from 1485 from the Dominicans' monastery library as a permanent memento for the town museum Museum im Stern.
The monastery building was purchased by the Syrian Orthodox Church of Germany in 1996. It is still the seat of the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Germany and is used as the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Jacob of Sarug.
Address: 10 Klosterstraße, Warburg
St. Johannes Baptist
St. Johannes Baptist is a Catholic parish church built between 1228 and 1247 and dedicated to St. John the Baptist in Warburg Neustadt, district of Höxter. The church and parish belong to the pastoral association Warburg Stadt und Land in the deanery Höxter of the Archdiocese of Paderborn.
Address: Hauptstraße 50, 34414 Warburg
Kattenturm
The Chattenturm is part of the medieval city fortifications of the old town of Warburg, first mentioned around 1226.
The still existing city tower was named after the tribe of the Chatti, because from it you can see to Hesse. It is located at the upper end of the western city wall, which ran in a straight line up the castle hill, and served to secure it. It has a round ground plan and was probably built in the 14th century. The former conical roof no longer exists.
Since October 2016, the Chattenturm is accessible via a viewing platform (Diemel-Skywalk).
Biermannsturm
The Biermannsturm is a fully preserved, restored 14th-century fortified tower in the eastern Westphalian Hanseatic town of Warburg. The tower is made of quarry stone and has a hexagonal baroque hood made of slate. The tower is part of the former city fortifications of the old town, which are partially preserved along the street An der Mauer.
Sackturm
The Sackturm is a watchtower built in the 14th century of the medieval fortifications of the town of Warburg, first mentioned around 1226. It has been registered in the list of architectural monuments in Warburg since 1985.
Eckmänneken
The Eckmänneken is a town house built in 1471 and designated as a cultural monument in the old town of Warburg. It is located on the Altstädter Marktplatz at Lange Straße 2 on the corner of Klockenstraße and is considered the oldest inscription-dated half-timbered house in Westphalia. Since 1560 at the latest, it was the official residence of the Warburg bakers' guild.
Address: 2 Lange Straße, Warburg
Amtsgericht
The Warburg District Court is one of six district courts subordinate to the Paderborn Regional Court, along with the district courts in Brakel, Delbrück, Höxter, Lippstadt and Paderborn. The Higher Regional Court of Hamm is subordinate to the Paderborn Regional Court.
Address: Puhlplatz 1, Warburg