St. Radegund | |
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  St. Radegund Location within Austria | |
| Coordinates:48°05′48″N12°45′43″E / 48.09667°N 12.76194°E /48.09667; 12.76194 | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Upper Austria |
| District | Braunau |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Simon Sigl (ÖVP) |
| Area | |
• Total | 17.97 km2 (6.94 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 480 m (1,570 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 589 |
| • Density | 32.8/km2 (84.9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 5121 |
| Area code | +43 6278 |
| Vehicle registration | BR |
| Website | www.st-radegund.at |
St. Radegund is a municipality in the district ofBraunau in theAustrian state ofUpper Austria, named after SaintRadegund. It is situated at the western rim of theInnviertel region, where theSalzach river forms the border to theGerman state ofBavaria.
Originally a part of thestem duchy of Bavaria, Sankt Radegund together with the Innviertel fell to theArchduchy of Austria according to the rules of the 1779Treaty of Teschen. In the early 1930s, Joseph Ratzinger, who would later becomePope Benedict XVI, took Sunday walks with his mother to Sankt Radegund "and to other localities on the Austrian side of the Salzach".[3] The village is known as the birthplace of BlessedFranz Jägerstätter, a Catholic farmer andconscientious objector who was executed atBrandenburg-Görden Prison in August 1943. Jägerstätter would eventually bebeatified by Pope Benedict XVI on 26 October 2007.[4] Jägerstätter's wife,Franziska Jägerstätter, continued to live in Sankt Radegund up to her death in March 2013, at the age of 100.[5]
Sankt Radegund lies in theInnviertel region. About 72 percent of the municipality is forest and 22 percent farmland.[citation needed]
[Jesuit Fr. John Dear] had gone [to St. Radegund] to look for the homestead and came upon an elderly woman eating plums from a tree outside a residence. When he asked if she knew where the Jägerstätters lived, she responded, 'I am Frau Jägerstätter.'
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