It lies on the territory of the municipality of Sankt Martin (Palatinate) in the county of Südliche Weinstraße in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

After the Kalmit (673 m), the Kesselberg (662 m) and the Roßberg (637 m) it is the fourth highest peak in the Palatine Forest.

To the east the massif drops down to the Rhine Plain, its foothills including the Kropsburg (334 m), the Heidelberg (338 m) and the Werderberg (350 m) with its peace monument.

The Hochberg is part of the natural region of the Palatine Forest that, in the system by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen published in the Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschland and its successor publications[2] is classified as a major region of the 3rd order.

[3] The mountain summit may be climbed on signed hiking trails from the Kropsburg to the east or from the Wegspinne by the St. Martiner Hut to the west.