WOLFENBUTTEL, a town of Germany, in the Land of Brunswick, situated on both banks of the Oker, 7 m. S. of Bruns wick on the railway to Harzburg. Pop. (1933) 19,612. The library is rich in Bibles and books of the early Reformation period, and contains some fragments of the Gothic bible of Ulfilas.
A castle is said to have been founded on the site of Wolf en biittel by a margrave of Meissen about 1046. When this began
in 1267 to be the residence of the early Brunswick or Wolfen biittel line of counts, a town gradually grew up around it. The town passed wholly into the possession of the Brunswick-Wolfen biittel family in 1671, and for nearly one hundred years was the ducal capital. In 1754, however, Duke Charles transferred his residence to Brunswick.