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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
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S.S.E. from See also:Crailsheim on the railway to Goldshofe
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5000
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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: 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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