[1] The castle is believed to be the seat of the Lords of Schleid, who played an important role in the Upper Ulster Valley in the High and Late Middle Ages.

The aristocratic families of the Rockenstuhl office belonged to the "Buchian nobility", they were vassals of the Fulda monastery and served the respective abbots as warriors, administrators and judges.

The conical hill rises steeply from the floor of the valley and is situated near the Rockenstuhl to the south on which another castle was sited until the time of the Thirty Years' War.

In addition to its significance for the lords of Schleid, the Bocksberg was militarily important to those local towns.

In addition, the main driveway between Geisa and the Rockenstuhl led along the eastern slope of the Bocksberg.