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Gate building of Altshausen Palace
Gate building of Altshausen Palace

Altshausen is a small Swabian town (c. 4,600 inhabitants) near Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. It is notable for its Teutonic Order castle and as the birthplace of Hermann of Reichenau. Sister city of Altshausen in Bicske, Hungary. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 470 KB) Altshausen, Germany: Schloss, Torgebäude, vom Schlosshof Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke File links The following pages link to this file: Altshausen ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 470 KB) Altshausen, Germany: Schloss, Torgebäude, vom Schlosshof Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke File links The following pages link to this file: Altshausen ... Swabia (German: Schwaben or Schwabenland) is both a historic and linguistic (see Swabian German) region in Germany. ... Ravensburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in south-western Germany to the east of the Upper Rhine. ... Teutonic Knights, charging into battle. ... Hermannus Contractus (also called Hermannus Augiensis, Hermann of Reichenau) (1013 – 1054) was an 11th century scholar, composer, and music theorist. ... Bicske is a town in Fejér county, Hungary. ...


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In den Jahren 1246 und 1264 erhielt der Deutsche Orden Besitz in Altshausen und Umgebung und trat damit die Besitznachfolge der Grafen von Altshausen-Veringen an.
Seit 1440 residierte der Landkomtur der Deutschordensballei Schwaben-Elsass-Burgund in Altshausen.
Die Kommende Altshausen umfasste zunächst den zentralen Ort Altshausen mit acht dazugehörigen Weilern und Höfen: die Weiler Ragenreute und Reute, je zwei Höfe in Hirschegg, Hangen und Baltshaus, sowie je einen Hof in Häusern, Hundsrücken und Zwirtenberg.
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