A castle, a community, a home.
ITI lives in Schloss Trumau, a castle south of Vienna: students and families from over twenty nations, one shared life of study, prayer, and friendship.
One Community
Twenty-two nations. One life.
115 students from 22 countries, and everyone knows everyone. You study with the same people you cook with, pray beside, and celebrate with; professors know each student by name, and their families are part of the same community. Study, prayer, meals, children, friendship: it is not split into separate worlds. It is one life, lived closely together, and it gives people friends for life.
Housing
Everyone lives here. That is the point.
Single students live in residences on the campus complex, with shared kitchens where people gather to cook, eat, and talk late. Families have their own apartments a courtyard away. Seminarians and priests live in their own quarters, and all of it is one place, a few steps apart.
Residential life is not an add-on to the education; it is half of it. The conversation that starts in the seminar continues in the kitchen, and the person beside you at Mass is the one you argued philosophy with an hour before.
Families Belong Here
Children in the courtyard are part of the curriculum.
ITI was founded with families in mind. About one in seven students is married; spouses and children live on campus, in family apartments beside the student residences. Children ride tricycles in the courtyard while their parents read Aquinas.
Families and single students share Sunday potluck brunches, feasts, and daily Mass. Generations live side by side here, and for many, it is the first place where student life and family life visibly belong together.
Life in Austria
Studying in the heart of Europe.
Austria is one of the safest and most livable countries in Europe, with a deep Catholic heritage, reliable trains, excellent healthcare, and living costs well below most Western capitals. Study at ITI is in English; daily life adds Austria itself: its churches, markets, mountains, and the ease of reaching the rest of Europe from the centre of it.
Mountains, Vienna, Europe
Trumau is small. Its doorstep is not.
The parish, the shops, and the train station are a short walk away; Vienna is about twenty kilometres north. On free days, students hike the Schneeberg, sing in the Wachau, or take the train to the opera.
All Seasons
Winter belongs to the community too.
Advent wreaths in the kitchens, snow on the courtyard, the chapel warm and full. The academic year runs through all four seasons, and so does the life around it.
The Castle
Nine centuries old, and full of students.
The main building of Schloss Trumau dates to 1138, on land once deeded to Heiligenkreuz Abbey by Duke Leopold IV. For centuries it belonged to the Cistercians; today its vaulted rooms hold seminars, a library, and a chapel.
Lectures under baroque ceilings, feasts under the great plane tree in the courtyard, evening light on the tower: the castle is not a backdrop. It is where everything happens.
From Above
The same towers, 350 years later.
Seen from the air, the Schloss still matches its 17th-century engraving: the towers, the courtyard, the park. What changed is the life inside: a university community that fills it from morning prayer to late-night conversations.
Visit ITI in Trumau
Come and see.
Walk the allee, eat at the long tables, meet the families and the students. One visit tells you more than any website. Come to Trumau and see whether this is your place.