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Mariastern Abbey is a Cistercian nunnery in
/ref> Sister Agnes Fabianek OCist was the abbess at that time. In 2015, the nunnery had 25 sisters.Orden Online website, ''Mariastern Gwiggen'', article dated 19 January 2015
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Mariastern Abbey is a Cistercian nunnery in Hohenweiler
Hohenweiler (Low Alemannic: ''Howiilar'') is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg
Vorarlberg ( , ; gsw, label=Vorarlbergisch, Vorarlbearg, , or ) is the westernmost States of Austria, state () of Aust ...
, Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
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The nunnery was founded in 1856.
It is the mother house of Marienfeld Abbey
Marienfeld Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in the Marienfeld district of Harsewinkel, in the district of Gütersloh, Germany. It was founded in 1185 by monks from Hardehausen Abbey and dissolved in 1803 after German Mediatisation, becoming s ...
, founded in 1974.Kloster Marienfeld website, ''Founding History''/ref> Sister Agnes Fabianek OCist was the abbess at that time. In 2015, the nunnery had 25 sisters.
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Cistercian nunneries in Austria
Buildings and structures in Vorarlberg