WETTINGEN-MEHRERAU. - A "nullius" abbey, under the title of the B. Virgin Mary Maris Stella, in Switzerland, in the Canton of Aargau.

Since 18 Oct. 1854 it has united the title of the priory of M. It is immediately subject. At W. in Switzerland, in 1227, a Cistercian abbey was founded by Rapreyswil and by his wife Anna of Homberg, on the river Dimuzat, "ad Limagi ripam" in the Canton of Aargau, not far from Baden. The abbey was suppressed in 1841. But some monks, together with the abbot, obtained in 1854 from Emperor Francis Joseph the right to occupy the ancient Benedictine abbey of Sts. Peter and Paul at M. near Bregenz in Vorarlberg, called Augia maior, Augia alba or Insula maior, founded in 1698 by Ulric count of Bregenz, suppressed in 1806. Thus M. became a priory dependent on W.

The S. Congr. of Religious, by decree of 4 June 1923, approved the Augense Congregation, commonly of M., formerly the Helvetic-German one of the Cistercian Order (AAS, 15 [1923], p. 359).

The abbot of W.-M. is the president of the Augense Congregation, commonly of M., to which belong 8 abbeys of monks, 3 conventual priories, one simple priory and 10 abbeys of nuns. The monks are occupied in the 1st College of St. Bernard (a lyceum with public rights), in the school of agriculture; 7 monasteries of nuns depend on the abbot of W.-M.; some monks are at the Marian shrine of Birnau on Lake Constance in Germany.

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BIBL.: Album Wettingense, 2nd ed., Limburg on the Lahn 1904; A. Ulmer, M., Dernbirn 1925-26; Gr. Müller, Der Konvent W. vom 13. Januar 1841 bis 18. Oktober 1854, 2nd ed., Bregenz 1927; K. Haid, Die Gründung des Klosters W., ibid. 1927; Cottineau (for M.), II. coll. 1807-1808; id., (for W.), ibid., coll. 2449-50.

Colombano Spahr

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