Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria

Holy Cross is a municipality with 1541 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Vienna Woods in the district of Baden, near Vienna. The postal designation of the main town is Heiligenkreuz in the Vienna woods (until April 2003: Holy Cross at Baden).

Known Roman Catholic facilities in the resort are the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz ( with Philosophical- Theological College Benedict XVI -. Holy Cross ) and the seminary Leopoldinum (until 2007 Rudolphinum ).

• 3.1 Demographics
• 3.2 religions

Geography

Holy Cross is located in the mountains of the Vienna woods in the valley of Saddle Brook, a tributary of Schwechat. The area is part of the industrial district. Through the village leads to the old pilgrimage to Mariazell, called the Via Sacra.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following five villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Füllenberg (36 )
• Holy Cross ( 510)
• Preinsfeld (111 )
• Saddle Brook (155 )
• Victory Field ( 746 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Holy Cross and Victory Field.

Neighboring communities

History

The period before 1133 is closely connected with the history Allands; the population will have been extremely low. East of the present town towards Siegfeld settlement remains of the old town have been named Muchersdorf in 1991 found from the 12th century. Mention is made of this place in the pen letter from the year 1136, in which the gift of Leopold III. , The Holy One is occupied by the Cistercians. The White Cross, now in the midst of the forest, placed the boundary between Holy Cross and Muchersdorf dar.

Following the establishment of the monastery of the residential development in the surrounding area grew slowly, most were employed in the monastic community. In the middle of the 19th century, the population had reached 900. In 1850, Holy Cross was with the cadastral Holy Cross and Victory Field after the Austrian Municipalities Act of 1849 an independent municipality. Abbot Edmund Komáromy - head of the pin - was elected the first mayor of the Holy Cross. The new church Holy Cross was annexed to the County of Baden.

Population

Demographics

Since 1869 (900 inhabitants), the population grew substantially continuous; significant declines were only recorded 1910-1923 and 1951-1961. Between the censuses of 1981 and 1991, an increase of 19.8 % was recorded, while in the next ten years (until 2001 ), the population increased by only 7 people.

Source: Population Development of Statistics Austria

Religions

The large majority of residents ( 76.4 %) are Roman Catholic. The second largest denomination is Islam (4.7%), closely followed by the Evangelical Church ( 4.1%). For the Orthodox Church 2.2% profess. Without religious beliefs are 9.6% of the population.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Johann Ringhofer, office manager Karl Habres.

The council consists of 19 office holders. Of these, since the local elections of 14 March 2010, the ÖVP and the SPÖ 15 accounts for 3 seats and the Greens a mandate.

Attractions

• Stift Heiligenkreuz

Traffic

The place has public bus to Baden near Vienna and to Mödling. The Mödlinger road B 11 leads through the village.

It also has a Motorway of the Vienna outer ring road A21.

Economy

Due to the pen is an important economic factor is tourism. The pin itself but also a large forestry operation with a connected sawmill. 1981 realized the pen the first district heating plant with a biomass heating plant in Austria, which at first only the monastery buildings, community facilities then later households supplied with heat.

Initiated by the forestry operations of the pen is also every four years, a fair for timber extraction machinery, the Austrofoma that counts Europe as one of the largest of its kind. The machines are on display in exhibition halls but not in the real forest management.

In Preinsfeld is also a gypsum mine, the mining was stopped in 2001.

Many Heiligenkreuzer commute from the Baden region.