Castle ruins Wolfsberg (Harz)

The Wolfsberg castle ruin lies on a hill in Wolfsberg in Saxony-Anhalt. Only a few remains of the extensive medieval burial site have been preserved. Edit HistoryQual

It is assumed that the castle of Wolfsberg was built around the year 1300 by the Counts of Beichlingen-Rothenburg, as well as by the castle Questenberg. It came into the possession of the counts of Anhalt-Bernburg around 1309, which pledged the castle. The new Burgherren were hostile to their neighbors, the Count of Stolberg, and damaged their possessions. According to a verdict in his favor, Count Heinrich moved to Stolberg around the year 1320 to self-help and took the castle Wolfsberg. In order to secure the conquered property against the demands of the House of Anhalt, he bore him to the bishop Albrecht von Halberstadt, and was officially entrusted by the latter with the castle of Wolfsberg next to Erichsberg Castle on 18 December 1325.

At the end of the year 1326 the castle Wolfsberg served as an expiation project in the conflicts over the castles Ebersberg and Erichsberg. In the later years it was pledged several times by the Counts of Stolberg, but always with the option of redemption. Wolfsberg and Erichsberg always remained a fief of the Hochstift Halberstadt.

Burganlage was damaged in the peasant war in 1525. Previously, it had been dilapidated, because in 1511 repairs to the roof and masonry were undertaken by order of the Count of Stolberg, Volkmar of Morungen. From a report by the Wolfsberger official Michel Sultzpach to Count Wolfgang zu Stolberg in 1549, it was clear that for two thousand florins the house of Wolfsberg and barns and stables had been "armed". This makes it clear whether the castle or the mansion of Wolfsberg was built from 1524 onwards.

Wolfsberg was also repeatedly pledged in the early modern period and was finally ruined by the lack of restoration measures in the 18th century.

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