# Rusenschloss

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Rusenschloss, also called the Hohengerhausen ruins, stands on a hill above Gerhausen in Blaubeuren, Baden-Württemberg. Mixed woodland and marked paths lead towards the surviving ruins. From the hilltop, you can look across Blaubeuren while seeing the remains of a gate tower, other towers, and the donjon. A northern gate tower fragment remains visible beside the main tower.

Count Hartmann II of Dillingen built the castle around 1080, and later owners included the Counts of Helfenstein, Austria, and Württemberg. Expansion followed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The complex underwent renewal after 1282, before gradual dismantling began in 1768. Stabilisation took place between 1974 and 1977. Later restoration from 2017 to 2021 shaped the remains visible today.

Below the ruins, the Große Grotte opens into the rock with an entrance seventeen metres wide and fifteen metres high. It reaches twenty-eight metres deep beneath the hill. Archaeological evidence links the cave to Neanderthals, placing human presence here long before the medieval castle. Other through-caves lie below the surviving ruins.

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