At the end of the 15th century, the castle was received as dowry by Boltežar the noble Wagen, imperial administrator of the castles of Hošperk by Planina and Šteberk in Cerknica, as well as lord of Kostel Castle near the river Kolpa. By this time the castle was in a very poor state or repair, and the seat of the lordship was moved to the newly built Bogenšperk Castle nearby. The fate of Lihtenberk was sealed by the 1511 Idrija earthquake which badly damaged the building; in 1630 its owner Jurij Kheysell demolished what was left and used the materials for the consolidation and repair of Bogenšperk, a practice continued later in the century by Valvasor.