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In general, the year 1717 is accepted as the founding year of modern ‘speculative’ Freemasonry. Exactly 25 years after the institution of the first English Grand Lodge, Austria founded its own first Masonic organisation. Queen Maria Theresias’ husband, Franz Stephan von Lothringen, is regarded as the Spiritus Rector of the first Viennese lodge ‘Aux trois Canons’ which received its founding credentials from Breslau in 1739. Although that lodge was closed down by order of the Queen a mere 6 months later, the seed had been sown, and there followed many lodges on Habsburg territory.
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FREEMASONRY IN AUSTRIA – Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
REGULAR FREEMASONRY IN AUSTRIA
LIBERAL FREEMASONRY IN AUSTRIA
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