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.