Ochsenhausen Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Ochsenhausen, in the Biberach district of Baden-Württemberg. Tradition holds that a nunnery called Hohenhusen stood here in the ninth century. The first abbey church was dedicated in 1093. The monastery, initially a priory of St. Blaise's Abbey, became an independent abbey in 1391 and gained territorial independence in 1495.
The abbey was extensively refurbished in the Baroque style, and it is sometimes called the Himmelreich des Barocks. The former abbey church is now the parish church of St. George's. Notable interior elements include Baroque vault frescoes, the main altar, a pulpit and the organ.
It was secularized in 1803, and its territories passed to Württemberg in 1806. Part of the complex houses the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Music Academy.
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