Stauf Castle stands south of the village named after it on a hill ridge, 327.1 m high, which runs northwards above the valley of the Eisbach.

The castle was probably built before 1000 AD and is mentioned as castellum Stoufenburc around 1012.

[1] It is thus the oldest recorded structure of its type in the Palatinate region.

Until the end of the 18th century it remained together with the Barony of Kirchheim in the possession of the House of Nassau.

From 1871, the Historische Verein Rosenthal owned the ruin until it was transferred to the town of Eisenberg in June 2000.