This site summit at an altitude of 644 m, also called Grand Ringelstein, is crowned with two huge sandstone rocks. A polygonal enclosure protects low buildings in it and lean against the rock where stands the High Castle. The lower curtain, stone humpback regularly bedded, can be dated to the early 13th century as well as the upper parts of which have a pentagonal keep the attack to the north, and a home on horseback on the rocks.
A rocky flaw was exploited for the construction of a cistern. This property of Eguisheim is mentioned by the mid- 12th century. After the extinction of the family, but to the bishop of Strasbourg. Den of robbers knights, it was destroyed in 1470 by the Count Palatine without ever being adapted to firearms.
