Wewelsburg

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 Schutzstaffel (SS) under Heinrich Himmler and was to be expanded into a complex which would serve as the central SS cult-site.

After 1941 plans were developed to enlarge it to be the so-called "Centre of the World". In 1950 the castle reopened as a museum and youth hostel. (The youth hostel is one of the largest in Germany.) The castle today hosts the Historical Museum of the Prince Bishopric of Paderborn and the Wewelsburg 1933–1945 Memorial Museum.

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Wewelsburgは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界178位（全3,734件中）、ドイツの256件では16位にランクされています。1603年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の34%より古い城です（17世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の285件のひとつ）。ドイツが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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