The small, former hill castle site is located in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park, about 850 metres west-northwest of the church in Affalterthal at a height of on the summit of the Altschlossberg,[REF] about 15 kilometres east of Forchheim [REF].
Very close by stands Egloffstein Castle and the ruins of Thuisbrunn and Schlossberg castles.