The ruined castle is one of the top tourist destinations in the region Ostwürttemberg, approximately 50 km east of Stuttgart, open to visitors with a little exhibition and equipped with a restaurant and café ("Burgschänke") in the bailey, providing an extraordinary view on the Swabian Forest towards the north and on the Swabian Jura towards the south.

[2] Typical for this Staufer dominated period, one can find a lot of humped ashlar masonry surrounding the inner courtyard of the castle.

[4] After the fall of the Staufer family in 1268, the former ministeriales of Rechberg socially managed to climb up into the lower category of noblemen.

This plan could be realized despite the resistance of different opponents, as for example the neighbouring free imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd, the Duke of Württemberg, the German kings who wanted to reclaim former Staufer possession, the counts of Helfenstein, south of Hohenrechberg, as well as certain clerical forces.

The outer bailey, nowadays partly used as restaurant and café, consisted of a hidden tower storage, a staple, an apartment and of further rooms and fortifications.

The Eastern House obtained a new roof and is now used for weddings and parties and contains a little exhibition with castle models and archaeological artefacts.

[16] A "Ghosthunting Explorer Team" investigated the castle in September 2016, finding "unexplainable" light reflections inside the Gate Tower and "undefinable" knocking sounds next to the inner bridge.