The castle may be reached via a steep footpath from the visitor mine of Weiße Grube in the valley of Langental.

It is true that, in that year and for the first time, a certain Werner of Bolanden appears in the light of history by being mentioned in a document, but his wife's name is not known.

After that, Philip III of Bolanden-Hohenfels was owner of the castle until 1277; he was the imperial chamberlain or Reichskämmerer and "Procurator on the Middle Rhine".

The owners that followed, the brothers Hermann II "the Elder" and Werner of Hohenfels, lay 1333, along with others, feuded with the Imperial City of Speyer.

According to a document dated 11 July 1287, Templer Province Master Wildgrave Frederick, as well as Commander of the Templar House of Kirchheim an der Weinstraße, Henry of Hohenfels, together with his fellow knights templar, sold the parts of their estate in the parish of Laumersheim to the collegiate church of St. Martin in Worms.