Ellwangen

Ellwangen was a Benedictine abbey on the Jagst in Swabia. It became an imperial abbey, with its immediacy probably stemming from a privilege granted in 1011.

Emperor Charles IV confirmed its privileges in 1347. As monastic discipline declined, Pope Pius II permitted its conversion into a college of secular canons in 1460. Ellwangen joined the Catholic League in 1609; Swedish troops occupied it in 1632 and withdrew after the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634. Württemberg took the territory in 1802.