The remains of the Castle can be visited
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Buttenhausen Castle (Ruin)
Buttenhausen Castle, also called the old castle on the mountain, is the ruin of a spur castle at about 665 m above sea level at the site of the New Cemetery above St. Michael's Church in the Buttenhausen district of the municipality of Münsingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg.
The castle was mentioned in 1389 when Knight Friedrich III von Gundelfingen sold the vogtei in Buttenhausen to Konrad, provost of the monastery of St. Maria in Güterstein near Urach. In 1469, the castle was owned by the Lords of Stein and was sold in 1569 by Wolf Dietrich von Stein to Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg. From 1812, the castle fell into disrepair and the stables were still partially used. In 1812, the castle was owned by Baron von Münch and in 1825 the granary was still in use.
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Of the former castle complex, the remains of the polygonal curtain walls with numerous buttresses, up to 5 meters high on the valley side, are still preserved and now serve as cemetery walls. Nothing remains of the neck ditch and the shield wall located towards the mountain.
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