1538–1636 Bendern hosted the Premonstratensians of St Luzi Abby in Chur, that fled the Reformation.

Older traces of settlement in the form of ceramics go back to prehistoric times.

[2] The baroque velum quadragesimale from the local church house Mariä Himmelfahrt, known as the Benderner Fastentuch in German is nowaday one of the treasures in the National Museum in Vaduz, the church possesses a copy.

[6] The village is located by the river Rhine and the Eschnerberg, close to Gamprin, and next to the borders of Switzerland.

It is linked with the Swiss village of Haag [de], a hamlet of Sennwald, with a road bridge originally built in 1868.