Ochsenhausen

Sister cities

• La Fère
• Subiaco

History

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 Prince (until then Count) Franz Georg Karl von Metternich (father of Prince Klemens von Metternich and father-in-law of Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg) in compensation for the loss of his immediate fiefs on 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.

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  658
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  614
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  560
• Red Kite

  Milvus milvus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  554
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  516
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  509
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  446
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  413

Most recent

• M 3.4 — 2022-10-16
  Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
• M 4 — 2022-07-09
  2 km NNE of Grosselfingen, Germany
• M 3.8 — 2018-02-01
  4 km N of Innerbraz, Austria
• M 3.6 — 2013-07-20
  3 km ESE of Andwil, Switzerland
• M 3.1 — 2008-12-25
  3 km NNW of Saulgau, Germany
• M 2.8 — 2008-12-16
  3 km WSW of Lech, Austria