On the west side of the Strahlenfels Castle Hill, a rocky spur branches off about 100 meters to the west, which was used to build a castle. The north side of the rocky spur drops about 15 meters vertically, and the west and south sides also drop steeply, partly interspersed with rocks, also 15 meters. Only the east side is connected to the slightly raised castle hill and had to be protected accordingly. There you can see a presumably natural ditch, which may have served as a neck ditch.
Of the castle on the rocky spur, only a six-meter-long and two-meter-high wall remains (image 4), which is in danger of falling away, and two smaller wall remains on the east side, which are only visible from below, remain. There is also a round cistern with a diameter of about half a meter on the castle plateau. It is still about half a meter deep and filled with leaves.
In 1589, there was still a residential building, opposite which was a brick floor, also a building, in which there was a cellar, a chapel and above it a grain store.
The entrance to the castle was on the south side of the rocky outcrop (image 2) via a seven-step staircase hewn out of the rock (image 3), from which a narrow path led upwards. You can probably imagine the entrance being like that of Pottenstein Castle. Wildenfels Castle and Wolfsberg Castle also had similar entrances.
There may have been an outer bailey on a 15-meter lower level of the terrain to the south, but nothing of it remains.
At the foot of the rocky outcrop on the northwest side outside the castle complex there is a small cave, the Strahlenfels Castle Cave (Cave Register of the Franconian Alb, D 516), which was closed off from the outside with walls. It probably served as a storage room for the castle residents.
Source: Wikipedia