Epprechtstein Castle, Medieval castle ruins at Epprechtstein Mountain, Bavaria, Germany

Epprechtstein Castle is a ruin on the treeless summit of the 782.1 m Epprechtstein, standing on an elongated granite ledge that drops steeply on its sides. What remains is the former tower house, from which a staircase leads to a wooden viewing platform built in 1982. The platform gives a panorama over the Waldstein ridge, the Großer Kornberg, Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Oberkotzau and Hof, and south to the Kösseine.

Epprechtstein is first documented in 1248, when a deed of gift by Duke Otto II of Merania names an Eberhardus de Eckebretsteine. In 1308 King Henry VII enfeoffed the brothers Ulrich, Henry and Nickel Sack with the fortress, with the Wilds as co-owners; Emperor Louis IV gave Vogt Henry of Plauen a small share in 1337. The burgraves of Nuremberg stormed the castle in 1352 and bought it outright in 1355/1356, making it seat of an Amtmann in the Sechsämterland. Troops of Vogt Henry of Plauen destroyed it in the 16th century.

The site takes its name from the mountain where it stands and is appreciated by visitors who seek views from above. It forms part of local identity and draws people interested in exploring the region's past.

The ruins stand on the treeless 782 m summit of the Epprechtstein above Kirchenlamitz. A staircase on the old tower house leads up to the wooden viewing platform built in 1982. The Kirchenlamitz mountain rescue service hut lies 250 m to the southeast.

The ruins were studied in the late 18th century by the local historian Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht and the cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein, and the painter Georg Könitzer made a lithograph of them among his Fichtel Mountains subjects. About 250 metres southeast of the summit stands the service hut of the Kirchenlamitz mountain rescue team.