Ghetto pillar (Eisenstadt)

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The ghetto pillar in Unterberg-Eisenstadt , a cadastral municipality of Eisenstadt in the state of Burgenland in Austria , is located at the entrance to Unterbergstrasse next to the Wertheimerhaus . The pillar with chain is a listed building .

The year 1862 is carved on the pillar. The second pillar on the other side of the street, which was used to tension the chain, no longer exists.

The ghetto pillar, which was called colloquially after the former ghetto , delimited the Jewish residential area on the Sabbath (see Eruv ).

  • Unterbergstrasse with the Wertheimerhaus of the Leopold Wolf's Söhne wine shop (around 1920); the chain is stretched on the Sabbath

  • Today's view

Web links

Commons : Ghettopfeiler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgenland - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '46.3 "  N , 16 ° 31' 0.4"  E