Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg
For the village of Wewelsburg, see Wewelsburg (village).
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1650–1660 19th century 1930s/1940s 1948/1949 1973–1975
Client
Dietrich von Fürstenberg [de]
Owner
District of Paderborn
Wewelsburg (German pronunciation:[ˈveːvl̩sbʊɐ̯k]) 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.[1]
After 1941, plans were developed to enlarge it to be the so-called "Centre of the World".[2] In 1950, the castle reopened as a museum and youth hostel. (The youth hostel is one of the largest in Germany.)[citation needed] The castle today hosts the Historical Museum of the Prince Bishopric of Paderborn and the Wewelsburg 1933–1945 Memorial Museum.
^"Wewelsburg 1933–1945. Cult- and terror place of the SS" (PDF). lwl.org. p. 214.
^James Bjorkman, "Heinrich Himmler: Hitler's Executioner," World War II in Pictures, Retrieved 5 January 2019.
Wewelsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈveːvl̩sbʊɐ̯k]) is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren...
outskirts of Büren-Wewelsburg which existed from 1941 to 1943 when it was disbanded. From May 1939, a small camp, the Wewelsburg satellite camp of Sachsenhausen...
Vogelsang wewelsburg.de/ Wewelsburg Castle Kirsten John-Stucke: Wewelsburg 1933 - 1945. Cult and terror site of the SS (PDF; 5.1 MB) "Wewelsburg 1933–1945...
performed a solitary rite at Walhalla, the subterranean section of the Wewelsburg castle in Germany that was utilized as a ceremonial space by the Schutzstaffel's...
characters in the Grail-mythos (see The "SS-School House Wewelsburg"). Himmler had visited the Wewelsburg on 3 November 1933 and April 1934; the SS took official...
so-called Black Sun, derived from a mosaic floor in Himmler's remodel of Wewelsburg; and the Celtic cross, originally a symbol used to represent pre-Christian...
scuola-SS Haus Wewelsburg 1934–1945 [The Fortress of Heinrich Himmler: The Center of SS Ideology: A Chronicle With Pictures of the SS Haus Wewelsburg School,...
scuola-SS Haus Wewelsburg 1934-1945 [Heinrich Himmlers Burg — Das Weltanschauliche Zentrum Der SS — Bildchronick der SS-Schule Haus Wewelsburg 1934-1945]...
adjutant of the SS, Wiligut developed his plans for the rebuilding of the Wewelsburg into an allegorical "center of the world". Wiligut's friend Manfred von...
of twelve sig runes first appearing on the floor of the north tower of Wewelsburg, after Heinrich Himmler ordered it to be remodeled, it gained modern popularity...
Münster (1st row), Emperor William Monument at the Porta Westfalica and Wewelsburg castle (2nd row), Nordkirchen Castle and skyline of Dortmund (3rd row)...
"Himmlers Wewelsburg und der Rassenkrieg. Eine historische Ortsbestimmung", in Schulte, Jan Erik (ed.), Die SS, Himmler und die Wewelsburg (in German)...
monuments or in special SS-designated places. In 1933, Himmler bought Wewelsburg, a castle in Westphalia. He initially intended it to be used as an SS...
reportedly one of the few Schutzstaffel officers inducted into the rites at Wewelsburg Castle, and after the war claimed that he had arranged the eventual surrender...
rotational symmetry. The design was incorporated as a mosaic into a floor of Wewelsburg Castle during the Nazi era and may have been inspired by Alemannic Iron...
Cook, Stephen; Russell, Stuart (2000). Heinrich Himmler's Camelot: the Wewelsburg Ideological Center of the SS, 1934-1945. Kressmann-Backmeyer. ISBN 978-0967044309...
influenced by occultism and according to one theory, developed the SS base at Wewelsburg in accordance with an esoteric plan. The Sun Language Theory is a pseudohistorical...
Cook, Stephen; Russell, Stuart (2000). Heinrich Himmler's Camelot: the Wewelsburg Ideological Center of the SS, 1934–1945. Kressmann-Backmeyer. ISBN 978-0-9670443-0-9...
by thirty million." — Heinrich Himmler's statement to SS officers at Wewelsburg castle, June 1941 According to a 1978 essay by German historian Andreas...
Hurst & Co. p. 61. ISBN 978185065-2724. Heilbronner, Oded (2015). "The Wewelsburg Effect: Nazi Myth and Paganism in Postwar European Popular Music". Revisiting...
Alderney Heinz Macher Leader of the SS group ordered to blow up the castle Wewelsburg Dr. Josef Mengele Born 16 March 1911. Medical officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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