Maria am Gestade monastery

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The monastery at Salvatorgasse 12

The Maria am Gestade Monastery is a Redemptorist college in Salvatorgasse in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt .

history

Father Klemens Maria Hofbauer managed to get the Redemptorists (Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris CSsR) admitted as a religious community in Austria in 1820. Maria am Gestade became her first monastery, from here monasteries were founded in many countries in Europe and North America.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 15.5 ″  E