driving from Bregenz through Leiblachtal towards the German border into the Allgäu, he sees between Hörbranz and High hamlet on the northern foothills of the Massif pledges a monastery. The handsome church with a roof turret, as is typical of the Cistercians. A big sign on the right side of the street invites you to visit the Sanctuary of the ZISTERZIENSERINNENABEI MARIA STERN GWIGGEN. For nearly 150 years of living here Cistercian, who after the expulsion of the three Swiss master monasteries and several years in the purchased or rented Swiss refuges found a new home together. The three old Swiss master called abbeys Kalchrain, FELDBACH and Tänikon in Thurgau and go to the 13th Century. 1848 they had fallen a victim to anti-religious stream, which meant at that time across the whole of Europe at the end of hundreds of ancient and venerable monasteries. The nuns of the three abbeys did not give up however. Since they had been in Switzerland by a novice prohibition from doomed, they gave up the offer good pensions, risking a fresh start abroad.
With strong faith in God and in single-minded effort succeeded in homeless women religious, finally, through the mediation of priests from the monastery Mehrerau the former chateau Gwiggen, a country manor from the late 17th Century, to acquire and step by step to build a monastery. They chose "Mary Star" as the name for this new establishment in the triangle of Austria, Germany and Switzerland and found that its beginning under the protection of Mary, who gave us the Holy. Bernhard (about 1090-1153) as "Star of the Sea" is in mind. 1856 the sisters moved in the conventions and Kalchrain Feldbach. The Tänikon sisters, who had hoped until recently to be able to return to their monastery met in 1869 to the Abbey so that Maria-Star since Gewiggen out the official title: "Convention of the United Thurgau Anbteien Kalchrain, Feldbach and Tänikon in Mariastern". Dem entspricht auch das damals gestaltete Klosterwappen. 
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