The digitisation of parish registers is a big project of the diocesan information service and archival work. The successful work in the Diocese of Eisenstadt can be thanked to the cooperation across borders: The Diocesan Archive Eisenstadt has been working together with the Diocesan Archive of Győr since 2012. Older ecclesiastical documents about the present-day Burgenland can be found in Győr, where the diocese has existed since 1009. However, the registers stayed in the parishes of the new province of Burgenland after 1921. The old registers were taken over by the Apostolic Administration of Burgenland in 1954.
The establishment of the Apostolic Administration of Burgenland took place in 1922 in the course of the affiliation of Burgenland to Austria in 1921. The Diocese of Eisenstadt was established in 1960 and thus the mother dioceses Győr and Szombathely were separated canonically from Hungary. The borders of the Diocese of Eisenstadt coincide with those of the federal state of Burgenland.
First, the register books of the 19th and 20th century were partly given to the Diocesan Archive of Eisenstadt. During the hard and comprehensive restoration work of the Institute of Paper Conservation (Institut für Papierrestaurierung Schloss Schönbrunn), birth, marriage and death certificates were restored and subsequently digitalised in Győr and made available online. With the help of the cooperation agreement, what historically belonged together grows together now.
First, the register books of the 19th and 20th century were partly given to the Diocesan Archive of Eisenstadt. During the hard and comprehensive restoration work of the Institute of Paper Conservation (Institut für Papierrestaurierung Schloss Schönbrunn), birth, marriage and death certificates were restored and subsequently digitalised in Győr and made available online. With the help of the cooperation agreement, what historically belonged together grows together now.