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monasteries - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1989 - 1 Shilling


Theme: Architecture
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1989
Face Value1.00 
Colorviolet blue
Printing Typecombination printing
Stamp TypeDefinitive
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1310
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID441564
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The Abbey Wettingen - Mehrerau is located in Bregenz on Lake Constance, in the state of Vorarlberg. The beginning of the Benedictine abbey Mehrerau goes back to a hermitage in Andelsbuch, in the Bregenzerwald, where about 1086 monks of the Benedictine abbey of Petershausen settled in Constance. In 1092 Abt Meinrad moved with his convent from Andelsbuch to Bregenz, where the now established monastery "St. Peter in the Au", also called "Au am See" or Bregenz Monastery was called. From the seventeenth century, the monastery got its present name "Augia Mair", which called "Mehrerau". After more than 700 years of existence, in 1806 the then Bavarian interim government abolished the Benedictine abbey. It was not until 1854 that Mehrerau was able to re-establish itself as a monastery by populating those Cistercian monks of Wettingen (canton Aargau, about 20 km from Zurich) expelled from Switzerland in 1841.

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The Abbey Wettingen - Mehrerau is located in Bregenz on Lake Constance, in the state of Vorarlberg. The beginning of the Benedictine abbey Mehrerau goes back to a hermitage in Andelsbuch, in the Bregenzerwald, where about 1086 monks of the Benedictine abbey of Petershausen settled in Constance. In 1092 Abt Meinrad moved with his convent from Andelsbuch to Bregenz, where the now established monastery "St. Peter in the Au", also called "Au am See" or Bregenz Monastery was called. From the seventeenth century, the monastery got its present name "Augia Mair", which called "Mehrerau". After more than 700 years of existence, in 1806 the then Bavarian interim government abolished the Benedictine abbey. It was not until 1854 that Mehrerau was able to re-establish itself as a monastery by populating those Cistercian monks of Wettingen (canton Aargau, about 20 km from Zurich) expelled from Switzerland in 1841..