It rises in the Bavarian province of Upper Palatinate in the county of Cham and is almost equally divided between the municipalities of Neukirchen b. Hl.

A double chairlift, 1.36 kilometres long, transports passengers through 393 vertical metres in 15 minutes and runs to the top of the mountain.

A similar development of names can be seen in the "Hohenstaufen" (high seat of the Staufer family), "Hohenschwangau" (House of Welf) and "Hohenzollern".

The low seepage capacity of the subsoil allows hundreds of small springs and stream channels to form on the flanks of the Hoher Bogen.

Until 1991, the German Met Office operated a precipitation-measuring station on the mountain at an altitude of 903 metres, which determined an average annual of 1,051 millimetres of precipitation from 1931 to 1960.

[2] In the medium term, various media in the area of the stairs and viewing platform will be used to inform visitors about the history of the site and its planned future use as a European meeting centre.

In their book Der bayrische Wald (1846), Bernhard Grueber and Adalbert Müller describe in detail a legend about the treasure, which is supposed to be kept in a copper brewing kettle under the Burgstall.