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{{Infobox German place
|type              = Stadt
|image_coa         = Wappen Ochsenhausen.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|48|4|20|N|9|56|53|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_photo       = Ochsenhausen - Kloster v SO 01.jpg
|image_caption     = [[Ochsenhausen Abbey]]
|image_plan        = Ochsenhausen in BC.svg
|state             = Baden-Württemberg
|region            = Tübingen
|district          = Biberach
|elevation         = 613
|area              = 59.96
|postal_code       = 88416
|area_code         = 07352
|licence           = BC
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 4 26 087
|divisions         = 3
|website           = [http://www.ochsenhausen.de/ www.ochsenhausen.de]
|mayor             = Philipp Bürkle<ref>[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/wahl/buergermeisterwahl-ochsenhausen-2023/ Bürgermeisterwahl Ochsenhausen 2023], Staatsanzeiger. Retrieved 13 June 2024.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2023&ndash;31
|party             = 
}}

'''Ochsenhausen''' ({{IPA|de|ɔksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩|-|De-Ochsenhausen.ogg}}) is a city in the district of [[Biberach (district)|Biberach]], [[Baden-Württemberg]], [[Germany]]. It is located between the city of [[Biberach an der Riß|Biberach]] and [[Memmingen]]. {{As of|2022}} it has a population of 9,261. The mayor of the town is Philipp Bürkle.

==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 [[House of Metternich|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 [[Imperial immediacy|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.

==Attractions==
Every year the ''Öchsle-Fest'' takes place. It is named after a historical [[narrow-gauge railway]] called ''Öchsle'' which ran from Ochsenhausen to Warthausen.

===Buildings===
* [[Church (building)|Basilica]] ''Kirche St. Georg''
* [[Stream]] ''[[Krummbach (Steinhauser Rottum)|Krummbach]]''
* ''[[Rathaus]]'', 1606
* ''Gasthof zur Post'', 1650
* ''Klosterapotheke'', 1736
* [[Chapel]] ''Gottesackerkapelle St. Veit'', 1679
* Music and cabaret stage ''Scharfrichterhaus''
* [[Gym]] ''Dr.-Hans-Liebherr-Sporthalle'', 2010

==Notable people==
[[File:Hans j briegel.jpg|thumb|left|120px|[[Hans Jürgen Briegel]], 2012]]
[[File:Nicole Rolser BL FCB gg. 1. FC Koeln Muenchen-3.jpg|thumb|left|120px|[[Nicole Rolser]], 2017]]
* [[Pius Bonifacius Gams]] (1816–1892), a Benedictine ecclesiastical historian.<ref>{{cite CE1913|wstitle= Pius Bonifacius Gams |volume= 6 |last= Leclercq  |first= Henri |author-link= Henri Leclercq |short=1}}</ref>
* [[:de:Joseph Ersing|Joseph Ersing, (DE Wiki)]] (1882–1956), politician ([[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]]), Member of Reichstag, Member of Landtag ([[Württemberg-Baden]])
* [[:de:Josef Hecht|Josef Hecht, (DE Wiki)]] (1882-1956), teacher and conservationist
* [[:de:Hans-Karl Riedel|Hans-Karl Riedel, (DE Wiki)]] (1893–1967), entrepreneur and local politician
* [[Karl Norbert Schmid]] (1926–1995), organist and composer
* [[Hanns-Friedrich Kunz]] (born 1945), singer and choir conductor 
* [[:de:Gerhard Baur|Gerhard Baur, (DE Wiki)]] (born 1947), mountaineer and camera man
* [[Hans Jürgen Briegel]] (born 1962), theoretical physician

=== Sport ===
* [[Matthias Dolderer]] (born 1970), race pilot
* [[Sandro Cortese]] (born 1990), motorcycle racer
* [[Nicole Rolser]] (born 1992), footballer, played 150 games and 2 for [[Germany women's national football team|Germany women]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180203165925/http://www.ochsenhausen.de/ www.ochsenhausen.de] {{in lang|de}}

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