Its abbot had seat and voice in the Imperial Diet, where he sat on the Bench of the Prelates of Swabia.

At the time of secularization, the Abbey's territory covered 56 square kilometers and it had about 5,400 subjects.

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.

Wettenhaussen Abbey was dissolved in the course of the secularization of 1803 and its territory annexed to Bavaria.