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ELLWANGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, on the Jagst, 12 m. S.S.E. from See also:Crailsheim on the railway to Goldshofe. Pop. 5000. It is romantically situated between two hills, one crowned by the See also:castle of Hohen-Ellwangen, built in 1354 and now used as an agricultural See also:college, and the other, the Schonenberg, by the See also:pilgrimage See also:church of Our See also:Lady of See also:Loreto, in the Jesuit See also:style of See also:architecture. The town possesses one Evangelical and five See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, among the latter the Stiftskirche, the old See also:abbey church, a Romanesque See also:building dating from 1124, and the See also:Gothic St Wolfgangskirche. The classical and See also:modern See also:schools (Gymnasium and Realschule) occupy the buildings of a suppressed Jesuit college. The See also:industries include the making of See also:parchment covers, of envelopes, of wooden hafts and handles for tools, &c., and tanneries. There are also a See also:wool-See also:market and a See also:horse-market, the latter famous in Germany. The See also:Benedictine abbey of Ellwangen is said to have been founded in 764 by Heruif, See also:bishop of See also:Langres; there is, however, no See also:record of it before 814. In 1460 the abbey was converted, with the consent of See also:Pope See also:Pius II., into a Ritterstift (college or institution for See also:noble pensioners) under a See also:secular See also:provost, who, in 1555, was raised to the dignity of a See also:prince of the See also:Empire. The provostship was secularized in 1803 and its territories were assigned to Wurttemberg.

The town of Ellwangen,which See also:

grew up See also:round the abbey and received the status of a town about the See also:middle of the 14th See also:century, was until 1803 the See also:capital of the provostship. See Seckler, Beschreibung der gefiirsteten Probstei Ellwangen (See also:Stuttgart, 1864) ; Beschreibung See also:des Oberamts Ellwangen, published by the statistical See also:bureau (Landesamt) at Ellwangen (1888). For a See also:list of the abbots and provosts see Stokvis, See also:Manuel d'histoire (See also:Leiden, 1890-1893), iii. p. 242.

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