Abbey Wettingen-Mehrerau - territorial-administrative division of the Roman Catholic Church on the diocesan level, reports directly to the Holy See, and it manages the abbot of the Benedictine monastery.

The monastery was founded in 611 by Saint Columbanus, who, being expelled from Lёksoyla, built a church, and a little later and the monastery. In 1079 sent to Wettingen-Mehrerau monk Gottfried reformed the monastery and introduced the rule of St. Benedict. At the end of the 11th century the monastery was rebuilt Ulrich (Count Bregenz) and inhabited by monks from the Abbey of St. Peter Constance (Germany). In the 12-13 century, the monastery has acquired the ownership of many of the surrounding land, and the 16th century had already 65 parishes.

In the mid-16th century, during the Reformation, the monastery was the basis for the support of Catholicism in the region of Vorarlberg. Sermons Abbot Ulrich Mёttsa had a tremendous impact on the people of the region by setting them against the religious innovations. In the mid-17th century during the war with the Swedes, the monastery was severely damaged and looted. By 1738, the monastery was restored, but at the end of 1805, the territory of Pressburg peace Vorarlberg with Bavaria Abbey withdrew after the defeat of Austria at the Battle of Austerlitz. In 1806 the monastery was disbanded and the buildings burned. In 1807, the remaining buildings were sold at auction, and later dismantled for building materials harbor Landau.

In 1853, when the earth moved again in Austria, with the permission of Emperor Franz Josef I, the land under the new monastery were purchased. Abbot of the new monastery became a monk of the Cistercian abbey Wettingen. Officially, the Cistercian abbey Wettingen-Mehrerau was opened October 18, 1854.

In the 19-20 century, the abbey is actively developing, in 1920, was acquired by the nearby castle, which today is a sanatorium and a secondary school with a boarding school.