Stamping point 201 / Konradsburg

Konradsburg Castle is located approx. 3 km south of the Falkenstein district of Ermsleben on the castle hill (236 m above sea level) and was founded to protect the Harz imperial estate.

After 1120, the Kon­rad­sburgs left the moun­tain spur and built Fal­ken­stein Cast­le in the Sel­ke Val­ley, after which they cal­led them­sel­ves Fal­ken­stei­ner from 1142 onwards.

A Bene­dic­ti­ne monas­tery was foun­ded on Kon­rad­sburg Cast­le and for the fol­lo­wing cen­tu­ries it was the cul­tu­ral, social, spi­ri­tu­al and eco­no­mic cen­ter on the eas­tern edge of the Harz Mountains.

In 1712, Kon­rad­sburg Cast­le was put to agri­cul­tu­ral use. In the cen­ter of the for­mer clois­ter stands an old well house, a two-storey half-tim­be­red buil­ding that pro­ba­b­ly dates back to the 18th cen­tu­ry. It con­ta­ins the well, which is over 45 m deep and pro­ba­b­ly dates back to the cast­le peri­od, with its tech­ni­cal dis­play – a don­key wheel. The other buil­dings were erec­ted in the 18th and 19th cen­tu­ries for com­mer­cial purposes. 

Thanks to a citi­zens« move­ment laun­ched in 1982, from which the För­der­kreis Kon­rad­sburg e.V. was foun­ded in 1990, it was pos­si­ble to pre­ser­ve the buil­ding fabric of all parts of the cast­le complex.

Below Kon­rad­sburg Cast­le lies the small sett­le­ment of „Burgrund“, from whe­re a sign­pos­ted hiking trail leads up to the cast­le. Ano­ther nice start­ing point is the Hol­län­der­müh­le mill near Endorf, from whe­re sign­pos­ted coun­try lanes lead to the castle.