Around 1330, Bishop Bernhard V of Paderborn founded a castle at the important Weser crossing with the participation of Corvey Abbey and the Lords of Brakel. Before 1348, Heinrich von Spiegel had one of two residential towers built on the south-eastern ring wall. In 1377 the castle came completely into the hands of the bishops of Paderborn. Along with other fortifications, Beverungen belonged to a series of castles built by the Bishops of Paderborn to protect the bishopric borders against the Landgraves of Hesse and the Dukes of Brunswick.
In the Thirty Years' War the castle was almost completely destroyed by the Hessians in 1632, and it was restored around 1854/55. In 1648/69 the bailiff Franz Burchard zu Oeynhausen erected a half-timbered building on the castle wall.
The Landesburg Beverungen remained in the possession of the Bishopric of Paderborn until secularization in 1802 and served as a pledge and official residence. In 1802/03 the castle came to Prussia and was leased by the Prussian domain administration. The complex began to deteriorate as early as the beginning of the 19th century, parts of which were demolished in 1806, 1820 and 1860. The ring wall, the round keep and the leveled moats have completely disappeared. In 1860 it came to the Barons of Wolff-Metternich zu Wehrden. In 1869 the city acquired parts of the castle area in order to build a hospital and a district court there. The planned demolition of the castle around 1900 was not carried out due to an intervention by the state curator Albert Ludorff. In 1933 the castle was converted into a sports school for the SA and in 1936 the facility housed a district training center for the NSDAP. Today the surviving buildings of the castle are owned by the city. After varied uses, the castle housed a museum. The museum was closed in early 2012 as a result of refurbishment measures.
In 1986 a chair museum was set up in the castle (since 2004 in Lauenförde). In 2015, the city of Beverungen acquired the castle building and in July 2017 sold it back to private ownership together with the neighboring Rentmeisterhaus. As part of the redevelopment following the sale, a restaurant with a knight's hall and a wedding room were set up, among other things.
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