[1] It is located in a borough that shares its name with the castle in the Dischingen municipality of the Heidenheim district of Baden-Württemberg.

This hill castle is located in the valley of a tributary of the Egau river on the Härtsfeld in Heidenheim district near an old Roman road running from Faimingen in Lauingen to Bopfingen known as the Frankensträßle (English: Frankish avenue).

[2] Burg Katzenstein is located 538 metres (1,765 ft) above sea level.

Ownership changed again in 1354 when the Graf von Oettingen acquired the castle.

The castle was burned to the ground by French soldiers in 1648, at the end of the Thirty Years' War.