Warburg - History

History

Imperial Free City of Warburg
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
10th century–1802
Capital Warburg
Government Republic
Historical era Middle Ages
- Old Town founded before 1036 10th century
- Personal union with
Bp Paderborn

1020s
- Imperial immediacy 1180
- Joined Hanseatic Lg. 1364
- Annexed to Brunswick 1622–48
- Mediatised to Prussia 1802
- Annexed to Westphalia 1807–15

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