The original hill castle, recorded for the first time in 1246 as castrum Husen, was probably built here by the dukes of Zähringen in the 12th century.

A neck ditch and an outer ward guarded the heart of the castle with its palas and bergfried.

In 1643 French-Weimar troops under Jean Baptiste Budes de Guébriant destroyed the castle.

Later the ruins were incorporated into fortified earthworks or schanzen in order to defend the valley against enemy troops.

Today, parts of the palas wall, the so-called battery tower and the bergfried survive.