Ybbs Jewish cemetery on the Danube
The Jewish cemetery Ybbs an der Donau is located in Göttsbach in the municipality of Ybbs an der Donau in the Melk district in Lower Austria . The Jewish cemetery and the mortuary are under monument protection .
history
The 2,791 m² cemetery, where the dead of the Jewish community of Ybbs and the deceased from the southern and western Waldviertel were buried, is located in the district of Göttsbach.
The "Cultusgemeinde Ybbs" bought a piece of land in Ybbs an der Donau, Göttsbach, in 1889, founded the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Ybbs on January 1st, 1892 according to the Israelite Law of 1890 , and in 1894 built the Jewish cemetery Ybbs, with a cemetery wall and ceremonial hall.
The cemetery was desecrated during the Second World War in 1944. Under the direction of an SA storm leader , around 300 gravestones were removed and sold to a stonemason company in Amstetten . This stored the tombstones in a barn in Viehdorf. After lengthy negotiations and many complaints that were brought in and withdrawn, around 100 remaining tombstones were returned by the stonemason company around 1961 and transported to the cemetery in Ybbs, where they were re-erected by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien .
In the absence of precise knowledge of their previous location, the gravestones found were put back in a double row in the center of the cemetery.
Current
The Federal College Francisco-Josephinum in Wieselburg operates in agreement with the Jewish Community Vienna and the municipality of Ybbs and in partnership with the Business Academy Ybbs and the Technical College Břeclav ( Lundenburg ) ( Czech Republic ), the interdisciplinary and transnational school project "The Jewish community and the Jewish cemetery Ybbs - Jews in the Lower Austrian Mostviertel ”.
Project goals include a. the repair of the cemetery complex in Ybbs, the creation of a membership card for the IKG Ybbs / Amstetten, the reconstruction of the lost registry books, the erection of a memorial plaque in the cemetery in Ybbs, contacts to various Jewish communities in Germany and abroad and a presentation of the project work in the festive Frame.
See also
literature
- Shoshana Duizend-Jensen: Jewish communities, associations, foundations and funds. "Aryanization" and restitution . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Vienna 2004, p. 155 and 228 ( online in the Google book search - Der Friedhof in Göttsbach ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cemeteries and mass graves - Lower Austria - therein: Göttsbach ( Memento of the original of August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ auschwitz information - 63rd edition, December 2003, Institute for Social and Economic History, Johannes Kepler University Linz (PDF; 93 kB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '36.2 " N , 15 ° 4' 14.3" E