Egeno II of Konradsburg

Around 1080 (after 1076, before 1083 ) killed Egeno II Count Adalbert II of Ballenstedt of the family of Ascanians ( Vogt of Nienburg and Hagenrode; imprisoned from 1075 to 1077 ) in the West Village near Aschersleben. The reasons for this murder are not clear. It is suspected political reasons or that Egeno had acquired during captivity Adalbert askanischen owned and therefore the two got into feud. Your headquarters, the Konrad castle, Konrad Burger had to be converted to an atonement for the murder of a Benedictine or Augustinian Canons. According to legend, the stone cross in the West Village is reminiscent of the fact.

As of 1115 destroyed the men of the ancients Konradsburg Falkenstein and built the new castle Falkenstein, on probably the Sachsenspiegel on behalf of Graf Hoyer von Falkenstein was written a hundred years later. 1142, the Lords of Konradsburg called for the last time " by Konrad castle ", then " Falkenstein ".