Mistelbach Israelite Cemetery

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Mistelbach Israelite Cemetery
Two tombstones of a married couple

The Israelitische Friedhof Mistelbach in Mistelbach an der Zaya served the Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Mistelbach from 1900 to 1938 as a burial place. Since 1951 it has been owned by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien .

history

In 1891 the Jews were given the right to bury their dead in an area in the northeast of the Christian cemetery on Kirchenberg. The few graves were children's graves. In 1898 the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Mistelbach bought a plot of land for its own cemetery at Waldstrasse 104 (now: Waldstrasse 122), at that time still outside the city. The first burial there took place in 1900 for the Mistelbach merchant Hermann Bauer. In 1907, after years of disputes between the religious community and the town of Mistelbach, the Jewish corpses were exhumed from Kirchenberg and reburied in the Israelite cemetery. The Heroes' Cemetery for the First World War was built in 1923 on the former site on the Kirchenberg . The last recorded tombstone dates from May 1938 after Philip Länger, a Jewish agricultural machinery dealer from Poysdorf, committed suicide together with his Christian wife and their three children. After the Anschluss , the cemetery was " Aryanized " by the municipality and handed over to the Vienna Cultural Community in 1951 in a restitution procedure. 140 people with 124 tombstones have their resting place in the cemetery. The tombstones mainly testify to individual burials, and married couples also have a single tombstone next to each other. There are two rows of children.

Note

The cemetery can be visited. The key for the somewhat hidden door is kept with Mr. Martin Jäger, Waldstrasse 117 (opposite Waldstrasse 122).

literature

  • Heinz Eybel, Christa Jakob, Susanne Neuburger: suppressed and forgotten. The Jewish community in Mistelbach. Documentation of an exhibition of the same name, Aktion Museum M und Kultusgemeinde Wien (ed.), Riedeldruck OHG, Mistelbach 2003, ISBN 3-9501732-0-X .
  • Andreas Kloner: The Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Mistelbach. In: David. Jewish culture magazine. Issue 30, 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. Article in Mistelbacher Boten , May 12, 1938
  2. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cemeteries and mass graves, Lower Austria, Mistelbach, accessed on September 18, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ikg-wien.at
  3. Barbara Gösenbauer: Memorial: Against forgetting. In: NÖN.at. July 17, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Israelitischer Friedhof Mistelbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files