[8] The Wichsensteins were ministeriales of the Bishopric of Bamberg, whose coat of arms bore a blue wolf salient on a silver field.

In 1133 the brothers, Eberhard and Wikker de Lapide, were named as joint witnesses in a manuscript from Ensdorf Abbey.

In 1328 Bishop Henry II gave Boppo of Wichsenstein a further hundred pounds of Haller for the part of the castle enfeoffed to him.

George of Wichsenstein was at that time in the service of the brothers Henry and Eberhard of Berg, who had also become robber barons, and was taken prisoner in 1397 by King Wenceslaus following the siege of Spies Castle near Betzenstein.

That same year John of Wichsenstein and Michael of Streitberg raided and sacked a Leipzig merchants convoy and captured several people, whereupon the castle of Wichsenstein was destroyed because of its role in the robberies by Bishop Albert of Wertheim who decreed that it could not be rebuilt without his permission.

In 1609, large parts of the ruins still survived as a document about the riding estate (Rittergut) of Wichsenstein testifies.

In the deed of sale it was shown, however, as owned by free nobility, which was not the case for an episcopal fiefdom.

In 1828 the canon (Domkapitular), Franz Karl Freiherr von Münster, made the summit of the rock on which the castle stood, accessible.

In 1879 the state construction office in Bayreuth said that "apart from rocks there were still wall remains in the surrounding lower levels and in the private forest".