It is located at a height of 437.6 m above sea level (NHN)[1] on the conical summit of the Schloßberg ("castle hill").

At that time, large halls and independent chapels were only built by relatively high-ranking lords; around 1200, not a single count had such facilities.

In 1274 the castle was transferred by King Rudolph of Habsburg to Counts Emich IV and Frederick III of Leiningen.

In 1441, troops of the Palatine prince-elector and the Bishop of Speyer, Reinhard von Helmstatt besieged the castle for seven weeks until a peaceful agreement ended the investment.

Shortly after Easter 1450, as a result of a feud and the seizure of Hans von Helmstadt, troops from the town of Landau and Bishopric of Speyer advanced on the castle.

In June that year, Count Emich VI of Leiningen-Hardenburg and his son, Frederick of Zweibrücken-Bitsch, besieged the castle, captured it and so ended the disputes.

The outer wall on the valley side is made of rusticated ashlars and has three niches with adjacent windows and a fireplace, which has not quite been faithfully reconstructed.

Although other outer walls and the remains of residential buildings have been partially reconstructed, it is still difficult to get a clear picture of what the castle looked like.

But one day, the old gray woman met Rothkopf, the brother of the knight, who had been outcast many years before, in the forest.

But the knight at Lindelbrunn did not want to see his brother nor the old gray woman in his castle and threatened that if they did not go away they would be hanged on the lime tree.

She disappeared and Rothkopf looked up to see the castle disintegrate in a violent storm and the stones roll down to him in the valley.

Back in the valley he began to build a house with the stones of the castle, as the old gray woman had told him.

The knight of the castle was celebrating his victory in fine style when a commoner stood before the gate in order to report the withdrawal of the peasants.

When the knight refused him contemptuously, he left the castle and joined the army of the Count Palatine, Louis the Bearded.

Then Punker climbed a nearby rock, which was higher than the castle and managed to fire an arrow into the heart of the robber baron of Lindelbrunn.

The troops of the Count Palatine were able to break down the gate, but all their opponents in the castle were already dead or dying, struck down by the Punker's arrows.

The Count Palatine could not believe what he saw, suspected Punker of a lust for revenge guided by a magic hand and had imprisoned him for life in the tower.