Hohengerhausen ruins
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| Alternative name (s): | Russian lock | |
| Creation time : | around 1080 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Place: | Blaubeuren -Gerhausen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 24 '22.1 " N , 9 ° 48' 5" E | |
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The Hohengerhausen ruin , also known as the Rusenschloss , is a ruin of a hilltop castle at a height above the Gerhausen district of the city of Blaubeuren in the Alb-Danube district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle was built around 1080 by Count Hartmann II von Dillingen , expanded in the 12th and 13th centuries, renovated after 1282 and demolished in 1768. The Counts of Helfenstein as well as Austria and Württemberg are named as other owners . The ruins were repaired from 1974 to 1977. The former castle complex shows well-preserved remains of a gate tower on the north side, tower remains and remains of a donjon .
archeology
The Great Grotto opens into the rock below the complex . The cave entrance measures 17 by 15 meters and reaches a depth of 28 meters. Gustav Riek carried out an archaeological investigation on this place between 1958 and 1964. In contrast to many other caves in the Blautal valley, the archaeological excavation site only provided finds from the Middle Paleolithic . The place thus only bears witness to the time of the Neanderthals . Upper Paleolithic layers have not been excavated. They may have been lost when the castle was built in the Middle Ages. Riek distinguished a total of eleven Middle Paleolithic layers, which had a total thickness of about 2.5 meters. Layer XI exposed Levallois tips , layer IX again two hand axes .
Fauna in the stone age
Bones from cave bears and ibex were found on animal remains in the Great Grotto . Even reindeer , wild horses , red deer and wild sheep are among the finds. Individual finds are the mammoth , the woolly rhinoceros , the bison and the cave hyena . The arctic fox , red fox , rabbit , wild cat and other small mammals have been recorded for small animals. The biologists conclude that at the end of the Moustérie in the Ach and Blue valleys there was no highly arctic climate.
literature
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
- Günter Schmitt : Hohengerhausen (Rusenschloß) . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 2 · Alb Middle-South. Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberach publishing house printing. Biberach an der Riss 1989. ISBN 3-924489-45-9 . Pp. 49-58
- Karl Weil: The Hohengerhausen castle ruins (Rusenschloss) near Blaubeuren . Blaubeuren 1904.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ice Age archeology on the Swabian Alb. The sites in the Ach and Lone Valley and in their surroundings , ed. by Nicholas J. Conard , Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf, Kerns Verlag Tübingen, 2015, p. 35 and p. 157–159, ISBN 978 3 935751 24 7
- ^ Ice Age archeology on the Swabian Alb. The sites in the Ach and Lone Valley and in their surroundings , ed. by Nicholas J. Conard , Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf, Kerns Verlag Tübingen, 2015, p. 158, ISBN 978 3 935751 24 7
