Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria
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Heiligenkreuz is a village in the district of Baden in Lower Austria
in Austria
. The Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz Abbey
, the associated papal college Benedict XVI and the tomb of Mary Vetsera are in the vicinity.
Lower Austria
Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...
in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. The Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz Abbey
Heiligenkreuz Abbey
Heiligenkreuz Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, c. 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria...
, the associated papal college Benedict XVI and the tomb of Mary Vetsera are in the vicinity.