sentences:  It was not standing very long before it was destroyed.The castle lords at the time were the Knights of Mülenstein (or Mühlenstein), vassals of the Waldgraves, although little else is known about the castle’s history.Only in a 1595 description of the "Eßweiler Tal" written by state scrivener and geometer Johannes Hofmann on Count Palatine Johann’s behalf can anything be read about the Sprengelburg and its eventual destruction by merchants from Strasbourg.