Desenberg

The hill is a basalt knoll crowned by the ruins of Desenberg Castle and a relict of recent geological history and volcanism, as well as medieval feudalism and warfare.

The facility is oriented towards the Desenberg, which, viewed from the middle of the ditch, shows the setting position of the sun at the summer solstice in the fifth millennium BC.

In the legend, a brave Saxon frightens and slays a dragon living on the hill using the reflection off his shield.

When the time comes, he will go out of the mountain with his generals to restore the great empire and to usher in a golden age of peace and happiness.

A baker from Warburg once brought the emperor a basket full of white bread and received rich wages for it.

In the middle of the 16th century the Spiegels left Desenberg and took up knightly seats nearby, in Bühne, Rothenburg, Klingenburg, Wickelgönne and Dalheim.

View of the Desenberg from the east-northeast
The Desenberg is considered a possible location for the Irminsul (here as an illustration from the Externsteine relief ).
View from the Desenberg looking north-east over the Warburger Börde and village of Daseburg , to the Deiselberg (left of the wind farm ) and Weser Uplands (on the horizon)