County of Wölpe

The County of Wölpe (green area inside red circle) c. 1250

Painting of Schloss Wölpe in 1823. Left: its original site as a motte and bailey castle

The County of Wölpe (German: Grafschaft Wölpe) was the territorial lordship of a noble family in the Middle Ages in the Middle Weser Region near Nienburg/Weser which folded in 1302. The seat of the counts of Wölpe was the castle site at Erichshagen-Wölpe on the Wölpe stream in the borough of Nienburg in north Germany. The castle itself no longer exists.

Important representatives

• Bernard II of Wölpe (1176–1221), founder of Neustadt am Rübenberge and Mariensee Abbey
• Iso of Wölpe (1167–1231), Prince-Bishop of Verden

Sources

• Marcus René Duensing: Die Chronik der County of Wölpe, Diepenau 1999, ISBN 3-929793-69-5
• Ernst Andreas Friedrich: Wenn Steine reden könnten. Band IV, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7842-0558-5
• Dieter Riemer: counts und Herren im Erzstift Bremen im Spiegel der Geschichte Lehes, Bremerhaven/Hamburg 1995 (Diss. phil. Oldenburg) S. 141 ff ISBN 3-923725-89-2

External links

• History of the County of Wölpe (in German)

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