Israelite religious community Gänserndorf
The Jewish community of Gänserndorf consisted of the Marchegg and Matzen judicial districts of the Gänserndorf administrative district and the communities of Aderklaa , Bockfließ , Deutsch-Wagram , Gerasdorf near Vienna , Groß-Engersdorf and Süßenbrunn of the Wolkersdorf judicial district in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria .
Gänserndorf
The Jewish immigration to the area of the later IKG Gänserndorf began in the middle of the 19th century. According to Census 1934 lived here 52 persons who are to Judaism known. In 1866 the board of directors of the Gänserndorfer prayer house asked the Jewish community in Vienna to provide a Torah scroll .
A minjan was founded by the Gänserndorfer Jews in May 1884. In February 1889 he applied to the Groß-Enzersdorf district authority for permission to build a new prayer house. It was built in 1890 in Bahngasse.
In 1907 the independent Jewish community in Gänserndorf was founded. The minyan dissolved in the same year and transferred his assets to the IKG Gänserndorf. In 1908 the Chewra Kadischa was founded, a separate house was built for the rabbi and Doctor Moses Rosenmann was appointed rabbi.
A Jewish cemetery was also established in Gänserndorf in 1908.
Immediately after the Anschluss and the invasion of the Wehrmacht in Austria , the Jewish residents were demonstratively abused, harassed and humiliated in public, to the delight of the majority of the residents. Later on, a phase that appeared to be quieter from the outside set in, but the various NS agencies continued to harass the Jewish residents and rob them legally - covered by NS laws. The next outbreak of violence against Jews and Jewish businesses and institutions occurred during the November pogroms in 1938 .
On September 2, 1938, the registers of the IKG were handed over to the district administration and the keys to the synagogue and the attached living quarters to the gendarmerie. The cult objects and liturgical implements were handed over to the IKG Vienna. In 1938 the stars of David were removed from the synagogue.
The Jewish population had to leave the Gänserndorf district by September 15, 1938; on October 15, the IKG Gänserndorf was formally incorporated into the IKG Vienna. On October 24, 1938, the regional administration of Gänserndorf informed the regional administration that all "Jews and mixed race from the border district" had been removed.
Former synagogue in Gänserndorf
The former Gänserndorf synagogue at Bahngasse 60 based on plans by the architect Jacob Modern was used as a synagogue from 1889 to 1938. When Austria was annexed , the synagogue was expropriated and subsequently became the property of the municipality of Gänserndorf. It was used as a commercial vocational school, and after a renovation, it was used as a music school and finally as a youth center.
According to a city council resolution of January 2014, which was renewed in 2018, the demolition of the building was planned for the construction of parking lots in summer 2018. After a preliminary decision from the Federal Monuments Office , the demolition was postponed. In November 2018, the monument protection was confirmed by the Federal Monuments Office. The protection was lifted again by the Federal Administrative Court.
Angern on the March
In 1934, according to the census, 63 people who professed their beliefs lived in Angern an der March .
Bad Pirawarth
The local Jewish cemetery in Bad Pirawarth is part of the community cemetery .
Deutsch-Wagram
The Jewish cemetery in Deutsch-Wagram had been owned by the IKG Vienna since 1913. The last occupancy took place in 1895.
Lassee
There was a prayer house in Lassee and a minyan association between January 20, 1911 and November 30, 1939. 44 people professed their Jewish faith in 1934.
Marchegg
There is also a Jewish cemetery in Marchegg, the history of which is apparently not known. In 1934 35 people professed to be Jewish.
literature
- Christoph Lind: " The last Jew has left the temple - Jews in Lower Austria 1938-1945 ", Mandelbaum Verlag, ISBN 3-85476-141-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gänserndorf: criticism of the planned demolition of a former synagogue. Archdiocese of Vienna , June 26, 2018.
- ↑ Former synagogue in Gänserndorf placed under protection in the standard of July 3, 2018, accessed on July 3, 2018
- ↑ orf.at: Monument protection for the former synagogue confirmed . Article dated November 12, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: But no protection for the Gänserndorf synagogue . Article dated April 13, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019.