Ellwangen an der Jagst: Basilica, Schloss ob Ellwangen, and the Ostalbkreis Pilgrimage Town
Ellwangen grew around its Benedictine monastery, founded in 764. The Basilika St. Vitus, a Romanesque church rebuilt in late Gothic and Baroque styles, remains the town's dominant landmark. Schloss ob Ellwangen, a Renaissance palace on the hill above, was the seat of the prince-provosts who governed the territory for centuries. Roughly 24,450 people live here in the Ostalbkreis of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The Jagst river, a tributary of the Neckar, flows through town. Aalen is about 15 kilometres southeast. Schwaebisch Hall lies roughly 30 kilometres to the west. The landscape transitions from the Swabian Alb foothills to the Hohenlohe plain here. Ellwangen's Wallfahrtskirche on the Schoenberg hill draws Catholic pilgrims, and the annual Kalter Markt horse market in January is one of the oldest trade fairs in southwestern Germany, dating to the 14th century.
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Ellwangen grew around its Benedictine monastery, founded in 764. The Basilika St. Vitus, a Romanesque church rebuilt in late Gothic and Baroque styles, remains the town's dominant landmark. Schloss ob Ellwangen, a Renaissance palace on the hill above, was the seat of the prince-provosts who governed the territory for centuries. Roughly 24,450 people live here in the Ostalbkreis of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The Jagst river, a tributary of the Neckar, flows through town. Aalen is about 15 kilometres southeast. Schwaebisch Hall lies roughly 30 kilometres to the west. The landscape transitions from the Swabian Alb foothills to the Hohenlohe plain here. Ellwangen's Wallfahrtskirche on the Schoenberg hill draws Catholic pilgrims, and the annual Kalter Markt horse market in January is one of the oldest trade fairs in southwestern Germany, dating to the 14th century.
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