Mariastern Abbey, Hohenweiler
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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 ( ; ; , , or ) is the westernmost States of Austria, state () of Austria. It has the second-smallest geogra ...
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. The nunnery was founded in 1856. It is the mother house of Marienfeld Abbey, 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.Orden Online website, ''Mariastern Gwiggen'', article dated 19 January 2015
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