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Childhood in Inn-Salzach triangle
Joseph Ratzinger was born on Holy Saturday, April 16, 1927, in Marktl am Inn (diocese of Passau) and moved with his family in 1929 to Tittmoning which – as he himself says – has remained the "dreamland" of his childhood. In 1932 the family moved to Aschau am Inn where he received his first Holy Communion in the Maria Ascension Church.
In 1937 the family moved to a house of its own in Hufschlag near Traunstein. Joseph Ratzinger attended the local gymnasium or high school in Traunstein where he studied classical languages before entering the minor seminary in Traunstein at Easter of 1939.
After having been recruited by the National Labor Service in the Third Reich, drafted into the anti-aircraft corps and briefly imprisoned, Joseph Ratzinger returned to the seminary in the Archdiocese of Freising on Cathedral Mountain at Christmas 1945. On June 29, 1951 he and his brother Georg , along with 42 others, were ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Michael Faulhaber in the Freising cathedral. He celebrated his first mass as a priest together with his brother on July 29, 1951 again in St. Oswald Church in Traunstein.
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Joseph Ratzinger (right) and his brother Georg were ordained together with 42 other young men on June 29, 1951 in the Freising cathedral by Cardinal Michael Faulhaber. The picture shows both celebrating their first mass as newly ordained priests in the local parish church of St. Oswald in Traunstein.
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