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Mochental Castle
Mochental Castle is a Renaissance-style castle near the large district town of Ehingen in the southeast of Baden-Württemberg. The castle is located above the Danube in the Kirchener Valley, about eight kilometers west of Ehingen on the southern edge of the Swabian Jura. Directly below the three-winged castle is an agricultural estate, which together with the castle forms an almost enclosed quadrangle.
History+
Around the year 1000, the Counts of Mochental built Mochental Castle and a chapel. This was consecrated to Saint Nicholas in 1049 by Pope Leo IX. In 1192, Count Ulrich I von Berg donated the castle with the chapel to Zwiefalten Abbey. Mochental became its provostry. From the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century, the provostry and the Nikolaus Chapel were renewed and expanded several times in place of the decaying castle. In 1730, the main building of the provostry was destroyed in a fire. In the following three years, the brothers Joseph and Martin Schneider, under Abbot Augustin, built the castle with its 365 windows in its present form. In 1734, the church painter Franz Josef Spiegler painted the chapel with pictures from the life of Saint Nicholas.
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