Engelstsel Abbey is the only Trappist monastery in Austria. It was a former Cistercian monastery, situated in Upper Austria. The monastery was founded in 1293 by Bishop Bernhard as a Cistercian monastery. In 1295 the monks lived in the monastery of Vilheringa. In the days of the Reformation was an economic and spiritual decline, the monastery for some time moved to private ownership. In 1618 the abbey Vilhering intervened in the case, decided to provide financial support for the reconstruction of the abbey. On Easter Sunday in 1699 at the Abbey Engelstsel there was a fire, which resulted in a new financial difficulties. In 1746 Leopold Reichl, the last and greatest of the abbots Engelstsel began to restore the abbey using, including their personal funds.

In 1786 the abbey was dissolved by Emperor Joseph II, as the building was used for social events. The building was used again as a Trappist monastery in 1925 as refugees. It was the German monks expelled after World War I from Olenberg (Abbey in Alsace), who have found temporary shelter in the abbey Banz, but felt the need for a permanent residence. In 1931 Engelstsel was elevated to the rank of Abbey, was appointed rector of St. Gregory Eysvogel.

In early December 1939, the monastery was confiscated by the Gestapo, and the community, numbering 73 persons, was evicted from the abbey. Four monks were sent to concentration camps, while others were imprisoned or were drafted into the army. At the end of World War II he returned to the abbey only a third of the community. However, they were joined by refugees from the Bosnian Trappist monastery together with their abbot.

Since 1995, the abbot of the abbey Engelstsel appointed Marian Hauseder. Currently living in the Abbey 7 monks.