Augustinian Canons The abbey, dedicated to
Saint Mary the Virgin and
Saint George, was founded in 1130 by Countess Gertrud of Roggenstein and her two sons for the salvation of their soul. According to an ancient chronicle, the Countess told her two sons that she would endow the new monastery with as much land as she could plow in a day. She then mounted a horse around whose neck she hung a good luck charm and succeeded in plowing a vast area. The exact date when the Abbey obtained the coveted status of Imperial Abbey is uncertain. Wettenhaussen Abbey was dissolved in the course of the secularization of 1803 and its territory annexed to Bavaria. The library of 7,000 volumes was transferred to the library at
Dillingen. The premises were thereafter used for a rent office.
Dominican sisters In 1864 the buildings were acquired by the
Dominican Sisters of St Ursula's in
Augsburg, who established a school here, which today is a
Gymnasium (secondary school) specialising in music and the sciences. with Wettenhausen Abbey in the background ==Abbey church==