An Eberhardus de Eckebretsteine was first mentioned in the records in a deed of gift by Duke Otto II of Merania in 1248.

In 1337 Emperor Louis IV enfeoffed Vogt Henry of Plauen with a small part of the castle.

The artist, Georg Könitzer, sketched a lithograph of the ruins as part of his field of interest around the Fichtel Mountains.

The ruins of Epprechtstein Castle stand on the treeless summit on an elongated granite ledge the sides of which drop away steeply.

From the lookout is an all-round view of the Waldstein ridge, to the Großer Kornberg, to Schwarzenbach an der Saale and Oberkotzau as far as Hof, south over the interior Fichtel Mountains to Kösseine.