Ochsenhausen ( German: [ˈɔksn̩haʊ̯zn̩] ) is a city in the district of Biberach , Baden-Württemberg , Germany . It is located between the city of Biberach and Memmingen . As of 2022 it has a population of 9,261. The mayor of the town is Philipp Bürkle.
5-549: For many centuries, Ochsenhausen Abbey ( Reichskloster Ochsenhausen ), first mentioned in 1093, was a self -governing prince-abbey within the Holy Roman Empire ruled by a prince-abbot. In 1803, in the course of the German mediatisation , the abbey was secularized and erected into a secular principality that was then granted to Count Franz Georg Karl von Metternich in compensation for the loss of his immediate fiefs on
10-557: The Öchsle-Fest takes place. It is named after a historical narrow gauge railway called Öchsle which ran from Ochsenhausen to Warthausen. Ochsenhausen Abbey Ochsenhausen Abbey (formerly Ochsenhausen Priory ; German : Reichskloster or Reichsabtei Ochsenhausen ) was a Benedictine monastery in Ochsenhausen in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg , Germany . The traditional story of
15-474: The foundation, in which there may be some elements of truth, is that in the 9th century, there was a nunnery here called "Hohenhusen" , which was abandoned at the time of the Hungarian invasions in the early 10th century. A ploughing ox later turned up a chest of valuables buried by the nuns before their flight, and the monastery of Ochsenhausen was founded on that spot. The first Abbey Church of Ochsenhausen
20-568: The left bank of the Rhine after the whole area was annexed by revolutionary France. In 1806, the short-lived principality was annexed to the Kingdom of Württemberg , which in 1871 became part of the German Empire . The abbey still dominates the town from a hill. Ochsenhausen is called a "Baroque Kingdom of Heaven" ( "Himmelreich des Barock" ) because of the monastic architecture. Every year
25-497: Was dedicated in 1093. The monastery was initially a priory of St. Blaise's Abbey in the Black Forest , but gained the status of an independent abbey in 1391. In 1495 it became Reichsfrei (territorially independent). A pipe organ was built at the abbey by Daniel Hayl the elder in the years 1599-1603. The abbey was secularised in 1803 and in 1806 its territories were absorbed into the Kingdom of Württemberg . Many of
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