About A.D. 1087, Saint Ulrich of Zell, a monk of the Abbey of Cluny, founded Bollschweil Priory, a monastery of nuns, which was moved in 1115 to nearby Sölden and became known as Sölden Priory.
Sölden was a priory directly subject to Cluny, as was the norm in that reform congregation of the Order of St. Benedict.