His Eminence Cardinal Schonborn of Austria.
Dear Grand Master, Knights and Dames and friends,
May I cordially invite you to the refugee Mass on Saturday, 16 January, 2016 at the St. Margaret Catholic Church in Traiskirchen at 18:30 clock.
The Mass is celebrated by Cardinal Schönborn and Fr. Jochen.
The Knights and Dames of the Confraternity of St. Peter & St. Paul are requested to wear the mantle and medal. If you don't have a mantle, please wear a sash.
Please make a presence on this occasion of honor, and shows the solidarity of our Confraternity with the Church.
Please tell all your friends Catholics, Orthodox , Armenians, Assyrians, Caldäer, Syrians etc. to attend this celebration.
Please bring with your refugees who are at your care.
Who can offer you a ride from, please report this to me by 13th. January,2016, so that we can pass the same.
I can take 4 people. The meeting point is in our office 1120 Vienna, Wienerbergstraße 16-20 / 9/1 at 16:30 clock.
History of the parish of St. Margaret
Dear Grand Master, Knights and Dames and friends,
May I cordially invite you to the refugee Mass on Saturday, 16 January, 2016 at the St. Margaret Catholic Church in Traiskirchen at 18:30 clock.
The Mass is celebrated by Cardinal Schönborn and Fr. Jochen.
The Knights and Dames of the Confraternity of St. Peter & St. Paul are requested to wear the mantle and medal. If you don't have a mantle, please wear a sash.
Please make a presence on this occasion of honor, and shows the solidarity of our Confraternity with the Church.
Please tell all your friends Catholics, Orthodox , Armenians, Assyrians, Caldäer, Syrians etc. to attend this celebration.
Please bring with your refugees who are at your care.
Who can offer you a ride from, please report this to me by 13th. January,2016, so that we can pass the same.
I can take 4 people. The meeting point is in our office 1120 Vienna, Wienerbergstraße 16-20 / 9/1 at 16:30 clock.
History of the parish of St. Margaret
- An eventful and lively history determines the parish of St. Margaret in Traiskirchen, whereby its outstanding position as the mother parish of western Vienna basin into account.
For the first time in 1082 by Bishop Altmann of Passau at the point where today the Parish Church of St. Margaret is located, built a church and at the same time Traiskirchen mentioned as a parish in a document.
1113 were issued the patronage rights to the Benedictine Abbey of Melk. For nine centuries thus bear the Benedictine of Melk Abbey for pastoral care in Traiskirchen responsibility.
- The first parish boundaries were established on 1 January 1120 and thus became the mother parish Traiskirchen Western Vienna Basin. Chronological account of chaplains in Traiskirchen.
As a result, emerged with Baden, Bad Vöslau, Ebreichsdorf, Gainfarn, Günselsdorf, St. Helena, Kottingbrunn, Leobersdorf, Möllersdorf, Moosbrunn, Oberwaltersdorf, Pfaffstätten, Sollenau, Sooß, Tattendorf, Tribuswinkel, Trumau and Unterwaltersdorf independent parishes, the addition of the enter settlement history of today's industrial district testimony.
After a local point of the Reformation had widespread, came within the framework of the Counter-Reformation in 1623 the imperial decree on the residents Trai Kirchen under threat of loss of citizenship, return to the Catholic faith. This imperial command led to the complete restoration of the Catholic Church in Traiskirchen.
The pastors in Traiskirchen belonged as diocesan priests to the diocese of Passau, had since 1714 and are all but pastor of Traiskirchen simultaneously Benedictine of Melk Abbey.
The entire rule Traiskirchen also reached 1752 in the possession of the Benedictine monastery Melk.
By the second Turkish siege of 1683 the existing fortified church complex was razed to the ground. After a temporary church was built as a result only, was started soon with the construction of the parish church on behalf of Melk Abbey. Could be won for this contract with the Viennese architect and master builder Matthias Gerl d. J. (1712-1765) a student of Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668-1745). 1753 Matthias Gerl began with the construction of the new parish church, which was completed two years later. After the internal configuration of the parish church was completed by Johann Joseph Resler (1702-1772) and after the turmoil of the Seven Years War, the new parish church on June 12, 1774 inaugurated by the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Anton Migazzi.
The parish was by order of Emperor Joseph II at the same time one of the oldest parish schools, this was located in today's parish center.
In the last war days of World War II the plant was heavily fortified church destroyed again partially. The vicarage with his Feststiege burned down to the foundation walls, the parish church was heavily affected. The parsonage fundamentally renovated - After a renovation in 1955/56 in 2011 - 700 years after the first mention.
The town parish of St. Margaret's after the local government reform in 1972 one of four Catholic parishes (Oynhausen, Möllersdorf and Tribuswinkel) in the urban area of Traiskirchen and presently has 3607 Catholics - .
