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31-531: The name of 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

62-537: 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,

93-584: A simple monk in Morimond. The "Scourging of the Alleluia," now no longer observed, was quite celebrated in this diocese in the Middle Ages. On the day when, according to tradition, the Alleluia was omitted from the liturgy, a top on which the word "Alleluia" was written was whipped out of the church, to the singing of psalms by the choirboys, who wished it bon voyage till Easter. The "Pardon of Chaumont"

124-463: 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

155-474: Is Joseph Marie Edouard de Metz-Noblat, who succeeded Bishop Philippe Jean Marie Joseph Gueneley on 21 January 2014. The diocese covers a territory of 6,250 km and its estimated catholic population is 128,000. In 2021, in the Diocese of Langres there was one priest for every 2,782 Catholics. Louis Duchesne considers Senator, Justus and Didier de Langres  [ fr ] , who was martyred during

186-622: 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

217-480: Is very celebrated. In 1475, Jean de Montmirail, a native of Chaumont and a particular friend of Pope Sixtus IV , obtained from him that each time the feast of St. John the Baptist fell on a Sunday, the faithful, who confessed their sins and visited the church of Chaumont, should enjoy the jubilee indulgence . Such was the origin of the great "Pardon" of Chaumont, celebrated sixty-one times between 1476 and 1905. At

248-507: The Archbishop of Lyon , at the consecration of the kings of France. The chief patron saint of the diocese is the martyr Mammes of Caesarea (third century), to whom the cathedral, a monument of the late twelfth century, is dedicated. The diocese of Langres honors as saints some martyrs who, according to legend, died in the persecution of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius . They are the triplets Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Melapsippus ; Neo,

279-584: 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

310-531: 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

341-654: 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

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372-667: The Napoleonic Concordat of 1801, Langres was later united to the Diocese of Dijon . The bishop bore the title of Dijon and Langres, but the union was never quite complete. There was a pro- vicar-general for the Haute-Marne and two seminaries at Langres, the petit séminaire from 1809 and the grand séminaire from 1817. The See of Langres was re-established in 1817 by Pope Pius VII and King Louis XVIII . César Guillaume de La Luzerne , its pre-Revolution bishop,

403-730: 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] )

434-621: 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

465-399: The Diocese of Langres is Vassy , where, in 1562, riots took place between Catholics and Protestants that gave rise to the wars of religion (see Huguenots ). Numerous diocesan synods were held at Langres. The most important were those of 1404, 1421, 1621, 1628, 1679, 1725, 1733, 1741, 1783 and six successive annual synods held by Pierre Louis Parisis , from 1841 to 1846. These held a view to

496-607: 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

527-497: The Jesuit Pierre Lemoine  [ fr ] , author of an epic poem on St. Louis and of the work La dévotion aisée (1602–71); and of the philosopher Diderot (1713–84). The historian Raoul Glaber , monk of Cluny Abbey who died in 1050, was at the priory of St. Léger in this diocese when he experienced an apparition. The Benedictine Poulangy Abbey was founded in the eleventh century. Morimond Abbey ,

558-605: The author of their Acts; Leonilla, their grandmother; and Junilla, their mother. Other saints honored there include: The latter three were natives of the diocese and celebrated for their apostolic labors in Canada. The diocese was also the birthplace of the theologian Nicolas de Clémenges (fourteenth or fifteenth century), who was canon and treasurer of the Church of Langres; of the Gallican canonist Edmond Richer (1560–1631); of

589-613: The city. Ellwangen is twinned with: Bishop of Langres The Diocese of Langres ( Latin : Dioecesis Lingonensis ; French : Diocèse de Langres ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church comprising the département of Haute-Marne in France . The diocese is now a suffragan in ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Reims , having been a suffragan of Lyon until 2002. The current bishop

620-445: 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,

651-483: 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

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682-461: The end of the Middle Ages, this "Pardon" gave rise to certain festivities. Fifteen mysteries of the life of St. John the Baptist were represented on stages erected throughout the town on the Sunday preceding the "Pardon." The display drew multitudes to the festivities, which were finally called the "deviltries" of Chaumont. In the eighteenth century, the "Pardon" became a purely religious ceremony. In

713-601: The fourth foundation of Cîteaux , was established in 1125 by Odolric, lord of Aigremont, and Simon, Count of Bassigny. The Augustinian priory of the Val des Écoliers was founded in 1212 at Luzy, near Chaumont, by four doctors of the Paris University who were led into solitude by a love of retreat. Otho, son of Leopold of Austria and Abbot of Morimond, became Bishop of Freising in Bavaria and returned in 1154 to die

744-547: The invasion of the Vandals (about 407), the first three bishops of Langres. The See, therefore, must have been founded about the middle of the fourth century. In 1179, Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy gave the city of Langres to his uncle, Gautier of Burgundy, then bishop, making him a prince-bishop . Later, Langres was made a duchy , which gave the Duke-Bishop of Langres the right of secular precedence over his Metropolitan,

775-720: The north, 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

806-649: The old Diocese of Troyes and 94 of the old Diocese of Toul . For the legends concerning the Apostolic origin of the See of Langres and the mission of St. Benignus see Dijon . The bishops, until 1016, resided at Dijon and until 1731, exercised spiritual jurisdiction over the territory of the present-day Diocese of Dijon . Following is a list of bishops of Langres. 47°51′35″N 5°20′05″E  /  47.8598°N 5.33469°E  / 47.8598; 5.33469 [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

837-629: The re-establishment of the synodal organization, and also to impose on the clergy the use of the Roman Breviary (see Prosper Guéranger ). Principal pilgrimages are Our Lady of Montrol near Arc-en-Barrois (dating from the seventeenth century); Our Lady of the Hermits at Cuves; Our Lady of Victories at Bourmont; and St. Joseph, Protector of the Souls in Purgatory , at Maranville. Suppressed by

868-482: 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

899-538: 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

930-435: 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

961-468: Was to be re-appointed, but the parliament did not ratify this agreement and the bishops of Dijon remained administrators of the Diocese of Langres until 6 October 1822, when the Papal Bull " Paternae charitatis " definitely re-established the See. The new Bishop of Langres governed 360 parishes of the old Diocese of Langres, 70 of the old Diocese of Châlons , 13 of the old Diocese of Besançon , 13 of

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