The builder is uncertain. The article offers Prince Vladislaus I or ministeriales of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and archaeology dates the stone castle to the third quarter of the 12th century, while the infobox says 1230. It has Romanesque origins, with a small rotunda, and Gothic expansion from the 1250s under Ottokar II. It is quarry stone built directly on rock. The Schlik family rebuilt it in the late 15th century. A fire in 1725 burned the castle and its church, and Wolfgang Braubock designed the Baroque church, completed in 1734.
Queen Eliška was captured by a trick in 1319. The castle served as a town prison from 1822 until 1948.
The town of Loket owns it, and the Loket Castle Foundation runs it as a museum. It is described as a national monument.
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