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28-665: Beginning in Lindau, the path travels through Bregenz , Füssen passing such notable sites as Neuschwanstein castle . It continues through the Ammergauer Alps , Mangfall Mountains , Chiemgauer Alps and ends in Berchtesgaden south of Salzburg. This Bavaria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bregenz Bregenz ( German: [ˈbʁeːɡɛnts] ; Vorarlbergian : Breagaz [ˈb̥rea̯ɡ̊ats] )

56-445: A budget of around EUR 20 million. The program changes every two years. In addition to the performances on the lake stage, orchestral concerts and operas also take place in the adjacent festival theatre. There is also a children's and youth program during and before the beginning of the festival. The lake stage ( Seebühne ) is the largest open-air lake stage theatre in the world, with an audience capacity of around 7,000. Since 2014,

84-474: A new home. On 18 October 1854 the Cistercian Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau was formally opened. In the same year a monastery school was started. The monastic buildings were extended, and in 1859 a new Romanesque church was built; of particular note is the monument to Cardinal Hergenröther (died 1890), who is buried there. In the second half of the 19th century Wettingen-Mehrerau took a key role in

112-660: A series of battles in 15 BC, the Romans conquered Brigantion and the city became a Roman camp. It was conferred the status of a municipality ( Brigantium ) around 50 AD and was the seat of the Roman admiralty for Lake Constance. In 259/60 Brigantium was destroyed by the Alemanni , Germanic peoples who settled in the area in around 450. From 610 to 612 Saint Columbanus and Saint Gall worked as missionaries in Bregenz. From 917 onwards

140-691: Is twinned with: Mehrerau Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey is a Cistercian territorial abbey and cathedral located at Mehrerau on the outskirts of Bregenz in Vorarlberg , Austria. Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey is directly subordinate to the Holy See and thus forms no part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg . The abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, however, is a member of the Austrian Bishops' Conference . The official name of

168-623: Is home to four Gymnasium secondary schools, a commercial college (HAK), a technical college (HTL), upper secondary business schools (Höhere Lehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe), three Berufsschulen (vocational schools), crafts colleges, the Academy of Social Sciences, and a nursing school. Others include: an adult education centre, school boarding houses, state archives, a state library, a state museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz (modern arts centre), Künstlerhaus (art centre), Thurn und Taxis Palace, five monasteries, Heimatwerk (autonomous institution fostering

196-636: Is important; a major attraction is the Bregenz Festival (since 1946, floating stage since 1949, modernised in 1979, Festival and Congress Hall in 1980), winter sports on the Pfänder mountain. The annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele is world-famous, taking place in July and August each year on and around a stage on Lake Constance . This festival attracts more than 150,000 people every year to Bregenz (2011: 166,453, 2016: 159,172) and has

224-479: Is the capital of Vorarlberg , the westernmost state of Austria . The city lies on the east and southeast shores of Lake Constance , the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe , between Switzerland in the west and Germany in the northwest. Bregenz is located on a plateau falling in a series of terraces to the lake at the foot of Pfänder mountain. It is a junction of the arterial roads from

252-655: The Arlberg massif. Since 1726, Bregenz has been the main seat of Austrian administration in Vorarlberg ( Obervogtei , in 1786 Kreisamt , since 1861 seat of the Landtag, since 1918 seat of the Landeshauptmann ). Rieden-Vorkloster and Fluh were incorporated into Bregenz in 1919 and 1946, respectively. The town was bombed by the Allies in 1945, and 72 houses were destroyed. Sights in the district of Vorkloster include

280-659: The Bregenz Jazz Festival has been held every year in June at the Kornmarktplatz. It is the successor of the New Orleans Festival , which took place from 1999 to 2013, during the early summer, in the inner city of Bregenz, and which was no longer supported by the initiator Markus Linder. In addition to the change of name, there was also a musical genre change from blues to jazz. The location and

308-698: The Rhine valley to the German Alpine foothills, with cruise ship services on Lake Constance. It is famous for the annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele , as well as the dance festival Bregenzer Spring . The first settlements date from 1500 BC. The Brigantii are mentioned by Strabo as a Celtic sub-tribe in this region of the Alps. In the 5th century BC, the Celts settled at Brigantion , which became one of their most heavily fortified locations. After

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336-590: The Treaty of Pressburg (1805) gave Vorarlberg, and with it the abbey, to Bavaria , which under the " Reichsdeputationshauptschluss " had already secularised its own religious houses in 1802–03. The Bavarian authorities took an inventory of the abbey in April 1806. In a last attempt to save itself, the abbey offered to become a training-school for male teachers, but the Bavarian State refused the offer and dissolved

364-530: The 12th and 13th centuries the abbey acquired much landed property; by the middle of the 16th century it had the right of patronage for sixty-five parishes. During the Reformation the abbey was a strong supporter of Catholicism in Vorarlberg . In particular Ulrich Mötz, later abbot, exerted much influence in the Bregenz Forest by his preaching against the spread of religious innovations while he

392-957: The Maria Hilf parish church (1925–1931, by C. Holzmeister, interior from 1980) and the Cistercian monastery of Mehrerau . On the Gebhardsberg rock are remains of the fortress of Hohenbregenz (destroyed by the Swedes in 1647). Bregenz is the seat of the Vorarlberg State Assembly ( Landtag ), and of most of the provincial authorities/institutions of Vorarlberg (e.g. school superintendent, police headquarters, department of human resources development (AMS), Office for Environmental Protection, Chamber of Labour, Economics Chamber, Chamber of Agriculture, Chamber of Pharmacists, military regional headquarters, military garrison, one of

420-471: The S1 and S3 regional train services of Vorarlberg S-Bahn , S7 service of St. Gallen S-Bahn , REX 1 and long-distance EuroCity and Railjet trains, while the other two stations are only served by regional trains (S1, S3, REX 1). The regional train services are also part of Bodensee S-Bahn . The Pfänderbahn is an aerial tram to Pfänder mountain, with its valley station located in Bregenz. Bregenz

448-418: The abbey is Beatae Mariae Virginis de Maris Stella et de Augia Majore ( Latin : Abbatia Territorialis Beatissimae Mariae Virginis Maris Stellae ). The first monastery at Mehrerau was founded by Saint Columbanus who, after he was driven from Luxeuil , settled here about 611 and built a monastery after the model of Luxeuil. A monastery of nuns was soon established nearby. Little information survives on

476-464: The abbey with effect from 1 September 1806. The monks were evicted and the valuable library was scattered; part of it was burnt on the spot. The forests and agricultural lands belonging to the abbey were taken by the State. In February 1807 the church was closed, and the other buildings were sold at auction. In 1808-09 the church was taken down and the material used to build the harbour of Lindau . When

504-548: The castle served as a residence of the Udalrichinger (ruling dynasty of Vorarlberg), who called themselves Counts of Bregenz . The house died out around 1150. The son of the first Ulrich was Saint Gebhard , born in 947. He became the Bishop of Konstanz . In around 1170 Hugo of Tübingen (Montfort) founded a town settlement (first documented in 1249), enlarged it in the 13th and 14th centuries and from 1650 to 1652. The city

532-648: The district came again under the rule of Austria, the surviving monastic buildings were used for various purposes until in 1853 they were bought, with the permission of Emperor Franz Joseph I , from the last owner, along with some pieces of land connected with them, by the abbot of the Cistercian Wettingen Abbey in Switzerland , a monastery which had been forcibly suppressed by the Canton of Aargau in 1841, and for thirteen years had been seeking

560-549: The history of either foundation up to 1079, when the monastery was reformed by the monk Gottfried, sent by abbot William of Hirsau , and the Rule of St. Benedict was introduced. (It is probable that when the reform was effected the nuns' community was suppressed). In 1097-98 the abbey was rebuilt by Count Ulrich of Bregenz , its " Vogt " (secular administrator and protector) and his wife, Bertha of Rheinfelden , and re-settled by monks from Petershausen Abbey near Konstanz . During

588-530: The main hospitals of the province (Landeskrankenhaus), as well as a sanatorium, farmers' health and social insurance office, VLV (Mutual Fire Insurance Institute). A consulate-general of Turkey, and honorary consulates of Belarus, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, and Switzerland are located in Bregenz. Honorary consulates of Finland and the United Kingdom are located in nearby Lauterach , and an honorary consulate of Brazil in nearby Hard . Bregenz

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616-468: The manufacturing of traditional craft products), and various newspapers. Festival and Congress centre, Theater am Kornmarkt, casino, harbour for sailing boats and yachts, cable car up onto the Pfänder mountain. The economy is mainly dominated by small businesses in the services, trade and industry sectors: these include the textile industry ( Wolford AG), fittings manufacturer Julius Blum GmbH, glass processing and machine construction. Bi-seasonal tourism

644-472: The municipality. Bregenz railway station is an intermediate stop on the Vorarlberg railway line ( Vorarlbergbahn ), which traverses Vorarlberg in a north-south direction. The harbour of Bregenz is adjacent to Bregenz Hafen railway station , which is situated on the same railway line. A third station, Bregenz Riedenburg is situated further south on the Vorarlberg line. Bregenz station is called at by

672-995: The reinvigoration of the Cistercian Order. It was a member first of the Swiss Congregation of the Order, then of the Austrian Congregation. In 1888, along with Marienstatt Abbey , it left the Austrian Congregation and together with the Swiss nunneries that were subordinate to it, formed the Mehrerau Congregation , which was responsible for new settlements in Sittich in Slovenia and Mogila in Poland . In 1919 Wettingen-Mehrerau bought

700-589: The timing stayed roughly the same. Since 1987, Bregenzer Spring , a dance festival, has been held every year between March and June in the Festival Hall of Bregenz (Festspielhaus). Dance ensembles from all over the world perform their new productions, along with Austrian premieres. With a budget of around EUR 500,000 and up to 10,000 visitors, Bregenzer Spring is one of the most important dance festivals in Austria. There are three railway stations within

728-483: Was once more in a very flourishing condition. In 1738 the church was completely rebuilt, as were the monastic buildings in 1774–81. The existence of Mehrerau was threatened, as was that of other religious foundations, by the attacks upon monasteries of the Emperor Joseph II . However, Abbot Benedict was able to obtain the withdrawal of the decree of suppression, although it had already been signed. However,

756-513: Was provost of Lingenau (1515–33). During the Thirty Years' War the abbey suffered from the devastation inflicted by the Swedes , who billetted soldiers here and exacted forced contributions; they also robbed the abbey of nearly all its revenues. Nevertheless, it often offered a free refuge to religious expelled from Germany and Switzerland. By the 18th century however it had recovered and

784-543: Was sold in 1451, and again in 1523, to the Habsburgs and continued under Austrian rule, with a brief occupation by Swedish forces under Carl Gustaf Wrangel during the 30 Years' War , until the 19th century. Bregenz was under Bavarian rule from 1805 to 1814. From 1842 to 1850, the harbour on Lake Constance was built, then enlarged in 1883 and from 1889 to 1891, and Austrian ship service was inaugurated in 1884. Railway services have existed since 1872, and since 1884 across

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