Ebersburg Castle

The ruin occupies a hilltop position and retains the footprint of a medieval hill castle, with the inner stronghold and defensive elements concentrated on the summit. Surviving vertical structures identify the former heart of the site and indicate a compact, vertically focused fortress rather than a spread-out complex.

The most prominent element that remains is the keep, standing to a height of 19 metres. Its walls reach up to 4.5 metres in thickness, a feature that records the original emphasis on vertical defence and internal refuge. The keep survives as a substantial fragment of the medieval core and appears as an in-place remnant rather than a later reconstruction.

Fragments of the gateway to the inner bailey survive and mark the approach to the castle’s central enclosure. Those gateway ruins show the former entrance axis into the core stronghold and remain as the visible threshold between outer and inner zones. Today the gateway exists only in ruinous form but still conveys the plan of the inner ward.

The ruin lies within the southern Harz landscape near the Burgberg, which rises to 387.5 metres above sea level. The Thyra’s tributary Krebsbach runs past the Burgberg to the southwest. The village of Herrmannsacker sits about 1,000 metres to the south and the small settlement Sägemühle lies roughly 280 metres to the south‑southeast at the foot of the hill, where a surviving church‑tower remnant marks the vanished village of Vockenrode. From the castle position there is a clear view down toward Herrmannsacker and across the countryside to the Kyffhäuser and its monument. Conservation and repair work by a local association has been carried out on the ruin since 2006, and the surviving keep and gateway remain in a ruined but stabilised condition.