Warburg

Warburg (; Westphalian: Warberich or Warborg) is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Höxter district and Detmold region. Warburg is the midpoint in the Warburger Börde. Since March 2012 the city is allowed to call itself 'Hanseatic City of Warburg'. Geography The main town, consisting of the Old Town (Altstadt) and the New Town (Neustadt) and bearing the same name as the whole town, is a hill town. While the Old Town lies in the Diemel Valley, the New Town rises on the heights above the Diemel. The Warburg municipal area borders in the west on the Sauerland and in the northwest on the Eggegebirge foothills, while in the north and northeast the Warburger Börde abuts the town and in the south stretches the Diemel Valley. Constituent communities Warburg consists of the following 16 centres: Bonenburg (1,107 inhabitants) Calenberg (459 inhabitants) Dalheim (95 inhabitants) Daseburg (1,354 inhabitants) Dössel (651 inhabitants) Germete (997 inhabitants) Herlinghausen (446 inhabitants) Hohenwepel (683 inhabitants) Menne (846 inhabitants) Nörde (780 inhabitants) Ossendorf (1,332 inhabitants) Rimbeck (1,603 inhabitants) Scherfede (3,105 inhabitants) Warburg (10,663 inhabitants) Welda (889 inhabitants) Wormeln (652 inhabitants)