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Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria

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Country
  
Austria

District
  
Baden

Postal code
  
2532

Elevation
  
312 m

Local time
  
Sunday 8:00 AM

State
  
Lower Austria

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area code
  
02258

Population
  
1,490 (1 Apr 2009)

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Weather
  
6°C, Wind W at 10 km/h, 91% Humidity

University
  
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Benedikt XVI.

Heiligenkreuz is a municipality in the district of Baden, in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is known for the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the associated papal college Benedict XVI and the Catholic Leopoldinum seminary.

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Map of Heiligenkreuz, Austria

Geography

The municipality is located within the Vienna Woods (Wienerwald) mountain range in the southwest of the Austrian capital Vienna. It is part of the Lower Austrian Industrieviertel region. Heiligenkreuz is a stop on the old Via Sacra from Vienna to Mariazell in Styria. The local economy largely depends on tourism and forestry.

The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Heiligenkreuz and Siegenfeld. In the southeast it borders on the district capital Baden.

History

The village of Siegenfeld in the March of Austria possibly arose around 1040. In 1133 the Babenberg margrave Leopold III established the Heiligenkreuz monastery in the sparsely settled area. Another nearby village, mentioned as Muchersdorf in a 1136 deed, later became abandoned.

Over the centuries, a small settlement grew outside the monastery walls, which was incorporated as the present-day municipality in 1849.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2010 local elections:

  • Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 15
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 3
  • The Greens – The Green Alternative: 1
  • References

    Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria Wikipedia