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By 1897 the Moro family had acquired the entire monastery and its rights. In 1925 Adeline von Botka, the last surviving member of the family, sold the textile factory "Gebrüder Moro" to Baron Josef Aichelburg-Zosenegg. In 1942 he committed suicide, and the company was taken over by the "Hamburger
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Part of the premises and lands were bought at auction on 10 November 1788 by the brothers Johann and Christoph Moro, who set up a textile factory here. In 1796 they succeeded in acquiring a long lease of the lordship of Viktring. The rise of the firm "Gebrüder Moro" was spectacular; in 1816 the
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by decree of 19 May 1786. The parish of Stift Viktring retained possession only of the church and the former priest's house. The altar was removed to St. Bernard's Abbey in
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In 1970 the Austrian government bought the buildings and set up a secondary school here in 1977, which in 1980 became independent as the
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Aero-Maschinen- und Werkzeugfabrik". In 1956 the Reichmann company acquired the concern, but went out of business ten years later.
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founded Landstrass Abbey, latterly also known as Kostanjevica Abbey, a daughter house of Viktring in the
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Viktring Abbey was established in 1142 by Cistercian monks from
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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German
Slovene
Cistercian
Austrian
Carinthia
Roman Catholic
Viktring
Klagenfurt

Villers-Bettnach Abbey
Duchy of Lorraine
Saint-Hubert
Morimond
Spanheim
Maribor
Duke Engelbert of Carinthia
Ottokar II of Styria
Eberhard of Regensburg
Archbishop of Salzburg
Bernhard von Spanheim
March of Carniola
Kostanjevica
Slovenia
John of Viktring
Henry of Bohemia
Frederick III of Habsburg
rationalist reforms
Emperor Joseph II
Wiener Neustadt

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