History
Imperial Free City of Warburg |
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Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire | |||||
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Capital | Warburg | ||||
Government | Republic | ||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||
- | Old Town founded | before 1036 10th century | |||
- | Personal union with Bp Paderborn |
1020s |
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- | 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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