In 1302 the castle "Wolfsburg" was first mentioned in a document as the domicile of the noble lineage of Bartensleben. At the beginning this used to be a keep next to the Aller which obtained its well-fortified character as a moat not until later centuries. In 1372 the first documentary reference to the Burg Neuhaus (castle of Neuhaus) near Wolfsburg followed. After the extinction of the noble lineage of Bartensleben in 1742 the property, including the Schloss Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg Castle), was passed on to the Earls of the Schulenburg. The communal manor was an important employer for the near-by settlements Rothenfelde and He�lingen.
Some of today's urban districts, including He�lingen, used to belong to the Duke of Magdeburg during the 18th century. In 1932 these districts were outsourced from the Prussian province Saxony and integrated in the administrative district of L�neburg belonging to Hannover. Other urban districts, like Vorsfelde and the villages transferred to Wolfsburg from the county of Helmstedt, belonged to the later Duke of Braunschweig (Brunswick) for centuries. Fallersleben and other villages belonged to the Electorate of Braunschweig - L�neburg or the Kingdom of Hanover.
Wolfsburg was founded on 1 July 1938 as the Nazis' Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben (English: City of the KdF Car at Fallersleben), a planned town around the village of Fallersleben to house the workers of the new Volkswagen factories, which were built to assemble the Volkswagen Beetle "people's car" and remain there today, although Beetle production there ended in 1978 (it was transferred to Mexico for the final 25 years).
During World War II, there were also military cars, aeroplanes and other military equipment built, mainly by forced workers and POWs at these factories. The railway station of Wolfsburg was built by order of Adolf Hitler to transport and receive parts for military equipment.
Due to the urge of the British occupying power the
