Kloster Mehrerau at Mehrerauerstrasse 66 in Bregenz is a Cistercian monastery on the shore of Lake Constance, founded in 1097, with current Baroque church buildings and a still-active monastic community. Church open for visits; check mehrerau.at for current access. Bregenz is accessible by train from Innsbruck or Zurich. Combine with a walk along the lake and a visit to the Bregenz Festival stage nearby.
monastery in Bregenz
Kloster Mehrerau
Mehrerau Abbey is a Cistercian (a monastic order founded in 1098 in Burgundy, emphasizing simplicity, manual labor, and separation from secular society) monastery on the shore of Lake Constance at the edge of Bregenz, founded in 1097 and continuously active for most of the past nine centuries.
- Type
- monastery
- Destination
- Bregenz
- Cost
- Free to visit
- Founded
- 1097
- Era
- Medieval
- Address
- Mehrerauerstrasse 66, 6900 Bregenz
- Coordinates
- 47.5026, 9.7208
- Official website
- Visit website