Schloss Wolfenbuttel

The Schloss Wolfenbuttel is a manor in the town of Wolfenbuttel in Lower Saxony in Germany. As a broad four-wing complex, it began as a moated stronghold. It is the second-biggest enduring schloss in Lower Saxony and filled in as the principle habitation for the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel somewhere in the range of 1432 and 1753. It is presently utilized by an optional school, the Federal Academy of Arts Education and an exhibition hall. In the quick region are the Herzog August Bibliothek, the Lessinghaus, the Zeughaus and the Kleine Schloss.

It was first recorded in 1074 and was worked as a post on the stream Oker by Widekind of Wolfenbuttel. In the Oker bogs there was at that point a little settlement known as Wulferisbuttle, sited on an exchange course between the Rhine and Elbe and the church districts of Halberstadt and Hildesheim, utilized by the two traders and traveler priests. Gunzelin of Wolfenbuttel wouldn't swear loyalty to Albert I of Brunswick in 1255 thus the last wrecked the post, however it was modified by Henry I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen in 1283. The present arrangement of the stronghold, its channel and the lower levels and prison of the hold all date to Henry's time.