Der Bote für Tirol1840s5 tags
Commemoration in Vienna for the Tyrolean and Vorarlberg Defenders of 1809
On 13 August 1840, a solemn memorial service was held in Vienna's St. Rupert's Church for the fallen Tyrolean and Vorarlberg defenders of 1809. Alongside relatives of Andreas Hofer and Father Joachim Haspinger, twenty veterans of the Battle of Bergisel attended. Martin Frick announced that the memorial mass will henceforth be observed annually.