The remains of the castle can be visited
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Ruck Castle
Ruck Castle, also written Rugge Castle, is the ruin of a rock castle on the 524 m above sea level Bismarckfelsen near Blaubeuren in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg.
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The castle was built in the 11th century by Sigibot, the Count of Tübingen. Von Memminger saw in Manegold (* around 1034/43; † 1094), founder of Anhausen an der Brenz Monastery, the representative of a collateral line of the Counts Palatine of Tübingen, who named themselves after Ruck Castle. Further owners were ministerial officials of the Counts Palatine and the Counts of Helfenstein. The castle was also the ancestral seat of the minnesinger Heinrich von Rugge, who died in 1200. In 1563, the castle was further expanded into a residential castle, after the Thirty Years' War it fell into disrepair and was demolished from 1751 onwards. Only minor wall remains of the castle are preserved.
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