Wolfenbuttel

Wolfenbuttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the regulatory capital of Wolfenbuttel District. It is best known as the area of the universally prestigious Herzog August Library and for having the biggest centralization of timber-encircled structures in Germany. It is an episcopal see of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick. It is likewise home to the Jagermeister refinery and houses a grounds of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. With a population of around 52,000 individuals, Wolfenbuttel is a piece of the Hannover– Braunschweig– Gottingen– Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region.

It is the southernmost of the 172 towns in Northern Germany whose names end in büttel, signifying "home" or "settlement". A first settlement, most likely confined to a small islet in the Oker waterway, was established in the 10^th century. It was referenced in 1118 as Wulferisbuttle, when the Saxon tally Widekind of Wolfenbuttel had a water palace raised on the significant exchange course from Brunswick to Halberstadt and Leipzig. Demolished by Henry the Lion in 1191, and again by his incredible grandson Duke Albert I of Brunswick-Luneburg in 1255, the fortification was procured and revamped by the Welf duke Henry I of Brunswick from 1283 onwards.