At an elevation of 533.1 m (1,749 ft), it is the easternmost peak of the Czorneboh chain in the Upper Lusatian Highlands.

At the summit cliffs, which are under protection as natural monuments, the mica granodiorite of which the mountain consists can be observed breaking through the surface.

In 1841, historian Karl Benjamin Preusker suspected a pagan sacrificial place at the site.

The Kriegsweg (war path) runs south of the summit and received its name in the Seven Years' War after Austrian troops crossed the ridge in the night of 14 October 1758 to attack the Prussians in the Battle of Hochkirch.

A hiking trail on the southern slope of the Hochstein from Halbau [de] bears the name Polenzweg in memory of the poet Wilhelm von Polenz [de], whose favourite mountain is said to have been the Hochstein.