It is situated above Haidhof, a village in the municipality of Gräfenberg in the Upper Franconian county of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria.

An indirect reference to the castle occurs in Gelegenhait der landschaft mitsampt den furten und helltten darinnen, a terrain reconnaissance by the Imperial City of Nuremberg before the Landshut War of Succession if 1504/05.

[3] The castle stood on the site of a prehistorical fortification, probably a hill settlement of the Urnfield culture of the late Hallstatt era or early La Tène period.

The somewhat higher terrain of the castle was separated from the hill spur by a neck ditch that was probably not finished and into which steps descend.

In the middle of the hill ridge a navigable section was left that facilitated the transportation of building material to the castle construction site.

The castle access ran over the bridge and then north past the probably tower-like building into the outer ward.

The last remaining large section of surviving wall is in a rock crevice on the north side of the outer ward (Image 1).

The last section of the castle at the tip of the spur consisted of a plateau, 5 by 12 metres in area, on which not a single trace of any walls can be seen and which is now a viewing point.