Rauschenberg lies at the southern edge of the Burgwald, a low mountain range, near Marburg and Kirchhain.

When the "von Ziegenhain" family died out in 1450, the castle and the town fell to the House of Hesse.

Ever since the castle was blown up at a Kassel colonel's behest two years before the war ended, there has been nothing left of it but a ruin.

Results of municipal election on 6 March 2016: Rauschenberg's civic coat of arms might be described thus: Party per fess; above, in sable a six-pointed star argent; below in Or.

A Finnish industrial music group, named Rauschenmaschine (German for noisemaschine) has a song on their website called Rauschenberg.