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22-573: Adelmannsfelden is located in the landscape Ellwangen Hills in the Natural region Swabian-Franconian Forest . The municipality of Adelmannsfelden includes 18 villages, hamlets, yards and houses. There are four villages: Adelmannsfelden, Bühler, Haid and Stöcken. The three Hamlets are called Mittelwald, Ottenhof and Vorderwald. The yards include Dollishäusle, Eichhorn, Kuderberg, Mäder, Metzelgehren, Ölmühle, Papiermühle, Patrizenhaus and Wendenhof. The houses include Sägmühle and Schleifhäusle. Furthermore,

44-537: A migrant shelter in the town led to national and international media attention and a public debate about legal deportations. Ellwangen is served by the Upper Jagst Railway which is operated by both GoAhead and Deutsche Bahn . There are also several regional bus lines operated by FahrBus Ostalb . Ellwangen also is a "City Stop" for the Inter-City Train line of Deutsche Bahn . Since 2014,

66-463: A so called Stadtbus Ellwangen was established. A Stadtbus only stops if requested by the passengers and was established for older residents and the population surrounding the historic center of the town. Sights of the city are the medieval town centre with its churches, notably Ellwangen Basilica. Also well known are the Baroque pilgrimage church, Schönenberg , and the castle, both on hills near to

88-622: Is a town in the district of Ostalbkreis in the east of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany . It is situated about 17 kilometres (11 mi) north of Aalen . Ellwangen has 25,000 inhabitants. Ellwangen is situated in the valley of the river Jagst , between the foothills of the Swabian Alb and Virngrund (ancient Virgundia) forest, the latter being part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest . The Jagst runs through Ellwangen from south to north. The town developed in

110-584: The Byzantine Greek "Apostle of the Slavs" Saint Methodius was imprisoned in Ellwangen, after he had been arrested by Ermanrich, bishop of Passau . He was set free in 873 thanks to the intervention of Pope John VIII . The monastery was "exempt" from 1124 on (maybe earlier), which means it was directly responsible to the pope. The abbots were granted Reichsfreiheit in 1215. The office of Vogt

132-709: The Franconian Heights and the Virngrund to the east, the Härtsfeld to the south, the Frickenhofer Höhe to the southwest and the Limpurg Hills to the west. They are situated south of Frankenhardt , west of Rosenberg and Ellwangen , northwest of Hüttlingen , east of Adelmannsfelden , Bühlerzell and Bühlertann and southeast of Obersontheim and Vellberg . The highest point of

154-531: The German Mediatisation of 1802, Ellwangen became a part of the duchy of Württemberg . At first it was the government seat of Neuwürttemberg, the territories Württemberg had acquired by mediatisation. In 1803 the town became centre of a district ( Oberamt ), which in 1806 was included into the new Kingdom of Württemberg . In 1807 Ellwangen became seat of the Jagstkreis (Jagst District), until

176-654: The International Refugee Organisation (IRO) used the kaserne as a displaced persons' camp for 3,000 Ukrainian refugees until 1951. In 1951, the US Army — the combat engineer battalion and medical battalion of the 28th Infantry Division again took over the facility. In September 1955 the Americans returned the kaserne to the German government. In April and May 2018, two police raids at

198-729: The kuppe : from Burgberg to the north, Bühlerzell to the west, Orrotsee to the east and from Ellwangen to the southeast. There s a pilgrimage church , St. James, on the top and there is a Way of the Cross on the path climbing up from the village. For many years a branch of the Way of St. James also ran here, coming from Rothenburg ob der Tauber over the castle hill to the church and then on to Abtsgmünd -Wöllstein heading for Switzerland. Ellwangen Ellwangen an der Jagst , officially Ellwangen (Jagst) , in common use simply Ellwangen ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛlˌvaŋən] )

220-621: The 7th century as an Alemannic settlement in the Virgunna forest next to the Franconian - Swabian border. In 764 the Frankish noble Hariolf , Bishop of Langres , founded a Benedictine monastery, Ellwangen Abbey , on a hill next to the settlement. The monastery was mentioned in a document of Louis the Pious as Elehenuuwang in 814. It became a Reichsabtei in 817. From 870 to 873

242-607: The Ellwangen Hills is the summit of the Schönberg at 569.2 m, which is 1.7 kilometres north-northeast of Neuler- Gaishardt . The hill has a rather uneven plateau to the south of the summit which is about 100 metres wide and around 700 metres long, over 560 m metres high. The Schönberg is entirely wooded which means there are no views from the top. The next highest point is the Hohenberg , 568.9 m, at

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264-807: The North. The municipality was first mentioned in the Ellwanger annals around 1118. At this time, a castle was built. The castle stood at the place where the Adelmannfelden Castle is located today. Descendants of the Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden family live in Adelmannsfelden Castle until today. The municipality was under changing clerical and secular rule until it became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806. Specifically, it

286-530: The district reforms in 1973 and Adelmannsfelden now belongs to the district Ostalbkreis . In 1561, the Reformation reached Adelmannsfelden. Since then, the village has been Protestant dominated. The Protestant community of Adelmannsfelden is part of the Kirchenbezirk Aalen . After World War II, many Catholic refugees and displaced people came to Adelsmannsfelden. The Catholic inhabitants of

308-445: The district was merged into a larger unit in 1924. The king of Württemberg, who had acquired large areas with a predominantly Roman Catholic population, wanted Ellwangen to become the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese . To achieve this, in 1812 he founded an ordinary and a seminary , as well as a Roman Catholic theological faculty . The faculty was soon moved to Tübingen , where it became part of Eberhard Karls University . In 1817,

330-483: The eastern foot of which is the village of Rosenberg-Hohenberg. The hilltop forms a steep, kuppe that rises roughly 50 metres above the surrounding area and has a plateau measuring about 300 metres from west to east and is 100 metres wide. Apart from its western hillside, the whole kuppe is treeless and offers views over much of the Ellwangen Hills, to the south as far as the Albtrauf . Several footpaths meet on

352-543: The municipality have access to a Catholic church in Ottenhofen as well as chapels in Bühler and Stöcken which are being spiritually cared for from Abtsgmünd. Ellwangen Hills The Ellwangen Hills ( German : Ellwanger Berge ) are a hill ridge , up to 569.2 m above  sea level (NHN) , in the counties of Schwäbisch Hall and Ostalbkreis in the German state of Baden-Württemberg . The name of

374-699: The municipality includes the abandoned yards Altenwinden, Kunhof, Härzern, Limperg, Scheytenmühle, Breitengehren, Finkenhaus, Vorhardsweiler , Herzert, Herrenmühle and Rot diu Mul. According to data of the Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg , as of 2021. The municipality borders Rosenberg in the Northeast, Neuler in the East, Abstgmünd in the South, Sulzbach-Laufen in the West and Bühlerzell in

396-530: The range comes from the town of Ellwangen . The hills are known nationally especially because of the eponymous motorway services on the A 7 . The Ellwangen Hills belong to the Keuper Uplands and lie about 65 kilometres northeast of the city of Stuttgart and around 67 kilometres (both as the crow flies ) east-southeast of the city of Heilbronn between the Haller Plain to the north,

418-482: The seminary and the ordinary went to Rottenburg am Neckar , which in 1821 became the seat of the newly formed diocese for Württemberg. During World War I , in 1916–1917, Germany operated a special prisoner-of-war camp for ethnic Polish officers from the Russian Army, with the aim of subjecting them to propaganda and conscripting them into a planned German-controlled Polish army to fight against Russia (Poland

440-538: Was first held by the counts of Oettingen , from 1370 on by the counts of Württemberg . In 1460 the abbey was converted into an exempt house of secular canons , led by a prince-provost and a chapter consisting of 12 noble canons and 10 vicars . Initially its territory included the districts of Ellwangen, Tannenberg and Kochenburg. The district of Rötlen was acquired in 1471, Wasseralfingen in 1545, and Heuchlingen in 1609. In 1588 and from 1611 to 1618 about 450 people in Ellwangen were killed in witch-hunts . After

462-435: Was partitioned between Germany, Russia and Austria at the time). After World War II members of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division were convicted of a number of war crimes, involving the shooting of foreign concentration camp prisoners in Ellwangen during the war. In April 1945, US Army troops occupied Ellwangen and until 1946, stationed various Army units at the kaserne — the former German Tank School. From 1946

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484-617: Was under the Oberamt of Aalen, which became the Landkreis Aalen (District of Aalen) during the district reforms in the NS era . Between 1945 and 1952, Adelmannsfelden belonged to the federal state of Württemberg-Baden , which was established in the US occupation zone . In 1952, it became part of the newly established federal state of Baden-Württemberg . The Landkreis Aalen was dissolved during

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