Redemptorist College Innsbruck

On September 22, 1827, the first Redemptorists arrived in Innsbruck from Vienna and took over pastoral care at the hospital church. They initially lived in the Palais Sarnthein at the end of Maria-Theresien-Straße and moved to the Tschurtschenthaler or Attlmayr house on the Innrain in 1831. From 1834 they also looked after the local chaplaincy at St. John's Church. In 1839, the Innsbruck Redemptorists celebrated the canonization of their founder Alphons von Liguori with an eight-day festival with processions, sermons and devotions. The congregation was dissolved in 1848 and reinstated by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1853.

In 1895, a building association was founded for a new convent near the new hospital. The topping-out ceremony was held on November 2, 1895. In May 1896, the foundation stone was laid for the church, which was consecrated in 1898. During the First World War, part of the monastery served as a hospital and convalescent home for soldiers. Under National Socialist rule, the priests were expelled in 1941, the monastery was confiscated and used as a home for nurses. In 1945, the Redemptorists received the badly damaged building back and restored it over the following years. Since 1960, the monastery has housed a convent, and since 1968 it has been home to theologians from the Austrian Redemptorist Province who study at the University of Innsbruck.

In 2018, the Redemptorists decided to withdraw from Innsbruck due to the declining number of members. The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was handed over to the Serbian Orthodox community, the majority of the monastery's rooms were taken over by the Styrian Admont Monastery, while the remaining part was kept by the Redemptorists and used to accommodate students.