List of Jewish places of worship in Vienna
The Vienna City Temple , the only surviving historical synagogue in Vienna, is the center of the Israelite religious community
The list of Jewish places of worship in Vienna includes all Jewish prayer houses and synagogues that have existed or exist in the course of Vienna's history. Except for the city temple , all synagogues in Vienna were destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 and in the following years of National Socialism . Today, in addition to the city temple, there are several synagogues and rooms in converted buildings on mostly restituted properties.
overview
In 1935 Vienna had 6 temples, 89 prayer houses, 55 temporary rooms, 55 language and Bible schools, 18 pastors, 73 religion teachers and 117 religious associations. With the exception of Meidling , the synagogues and prayer houses were spread across all districts of Vienna. Those districts with the largest Jewish population were Leopoldstadt (about half of the population was Jewish), from which Brigittenau was split off in 1900 , and the neighboring district of Alsergrund . Overall, in the years before 1938, Vienna had a Jewish population of around 10% or around 200,000 people with a total population of just under two million. After 1945, Vienna had around 5,000 Jewish inhabitants; in the last census in 2001 it was around 7,000, which is less than 0.5%. With a share of around 3%, Leopoldstadt is still the largest Jewish district by comparison.
Synagogues
There were around 25 synagogues in Vienna. Most were destroyed in 1938, the others so devastated and damaged that they were demolished or used for other purposes in the following years or after the end of the war. Most of the properties of former synagogues now have community or cooperative residential buildings, after they were mostly restituted to the IKG after 1945 and later sold by the IKG.
Houses and rooms of prayer
There were about 70 prayer houses in Vienna; today it's 11.
List of places of worship
Legend
The listing is based on today's district boundaries of Vienna. If known, the construction date and a Jewish-religious re-use after 1945 are given. If no numbers are given, then nothing is known, except that the inventory ended in 1938 due to devastation or destruction.
- Org. … Supporting organization ( transl. … Meaning of the name) - Sorted: Synagogues / temples → prayer houses / rooms
- B. … Viennese district
- err. ... date of construction (construction or establishment)
- Notes - Sorted by existing and abandoned (Jewish repurposed items at the end of "existing", profane items at the beginning of "abandoned")
- existing as a place of worship
- existing as another religious place, preserved to a limited extent
- The inscription "Synagogues / Prayer Houses", "Before / from 1945", "Existing / Abandoned" only refers to the respective sorted column
- IKG… Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien
list
| Surname | Org. (Trans.) | B. | address | err. | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Synagogues) | (before 1945) | (existing) | |||
| City temple | Synagogue of the IKG | 1. | Seitenstettengasse 4 | 1824-26 | only histor. preserved syn. Vienna; Headquarters of the IRG Austria |
| Bejt Aharon Synagoge (Augarten Synagogue) | Chabad-Lubavitch | 2. | Rabbiner-Schneerson-Platz 1 | ? | |
| Association Synagogue Beth Hamidrash Talmud Torah | ("House of Learning for Talmud and Torah") | 2. | Malzgasse 16 | 1884/1906 | Devastated in 1938, since 1955 the Talmud Torah school of Machsike Hadass |
| Blumauergasse synagogue | Synagogue of the IKG | 2. | Blumauergasse 10 | ? | |
| Bukharian synagogue | Synagogue of the Association of Bukharan Jews in Austria | 2. | Tempelgasse 7 | 1992 | in the Sephardic Center Vienna ; first newly built synagogue of the post-war period |
| Georgian synagogue | 2. | Tempelgasse 7 | ? | in the Sephardic Center Vienna | |
| Leopoldstadt Temple | Synagogue of the IKG | 2. | Tempelgasse 3 | 1854-58 | 1938 destroyed except for the side wings, today Desider-Friedmann -Hof and Psychosocial Center ESRA , monument (D1) |
| Or Hadash Temple | Or Hadash Liberal Jewish Community | 2. | Robertgasse 2 | 2004 | |
| Polish school | Association Synagogue Beth Israel ("House of Israel") | 2. | Leopoldsgasse 29 | 1892-93 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Pazmanite Temple | Association synagogue Aeschel Avrachom ("Tent of Abraham") | 2. | Pazmanitengasse 6 | 1911-13 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Rambam Synagogue in the Maimonides Center | Maimonides Center Sanatorium ; Prayer house of the IKG | 2. | Simon-Wiesenthal-Gasse 5 | 2009 | Social center |
| Ship school | Association synagogue Adass Yisroel ("Community of Israel") | 2. | Große Schiffgasse 8/10, courtyard | 1864 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Turkish temple | Synagogue of the Union of Turkish Israelites ( Sephardim ) | 2. | Zirkusgasse 22 | 1885-87 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Synagogue in the Zwi Perez Chajes School | Association for the Preservation of the ZPC School ; Prayer house of the IKG | 2. | Simon-Wiesenthal-Gasse 3 | 2006-08 | Campus with kindergarten, elementary school, high school |
| Association synagogue Beth Hachneseth | 3. | Untere Viaduktgasse 13 | around 1880 | built in the 1870s (completion before 1883) | |
| Siebenbrunnengasse synagogue | Association Synagogue Beth Aharon ("House of Arons") | 5. | Siebenbrunnengasse 1a | 1907-08 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Schmalzhofgasse synagogue | Association synagogue of the Temple Association for Mariahilf | 6th | Schmalzhofgasse 3 | 1883-84 | Destroyed in 1938 (T1) |
| Stumper-Schul ( Stumpergasse synagogue ) | Synagogue of the Israelite Temple and School Association | 6th | Stumpergasse 42 | ? | Devastated in 1938, no longer repaired and worn out (T5) |
| Synagogue Neudeggergasse | Synagogue of the Josefstadt Temple Association | 8th. | Neudeggergasse 12 | 1903 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Club Synagogue Müllnergasse | Association Synagogue Chewra Beth Hatfila ("Association in the House of Prayer") | 9. | Müllnergasse 21 | 1888-89 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Hospital synagogue in the Vienna General Hospital (old AKH) | Hospital chaplaincy of the IKG | 9. | Spitalgasse, courtyard 6 | 1902 | Free-standing prayer pavilion, today the Marpe Lanefesh monument ("Healing for the Soul") |
| Schomrei Hadas-Sharei Zion Synagogue | 9. | Grünentorgasse 26 | ? | ||
| Humboldt Temple | Synagogue of the Favorites Temple Association | 10. | Humboldtgasse 27 | 1895-96 | Destroyed in 1938 (T2) |
| Simmering Synagogue | Synagogue of the Temple Association for the XI. District: Simmering | 11. | Braunhubergasse 7 | 1898-99 | Destroyed in 1938 (D2) |
| Hietzinger Synagogue | Synagogue of the Hietzing Temple Association | 13. | Eitelbergergasse 22 | 1924/1931 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Stork school | Association synagogue Emunas Awes ("Faith of the Fathers") | 15th | Storchengasse 21 | 1930 | Devastated in 1938 |
| Turnergasse Synagogue (Turner Temple) | Synagogue of the IKG | 15th | Turnergasse 22 | 1871-72 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Ottakring Synagogue | Synagogue of the IKG | 16. | Hubergasse 8 | 1885-86 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Währing Synagogue (Währinger Temple) | Synagogue of the IKG | 18th | Schopenhauerstraße 39, Hof (formerly Wienerstraße) | 1888-89 | Destroyed in 1938 (T3) |
| Döbling Synagogue (Döbling Temple) | Synagogue of the Döbling Temple Association | 19th | Dollinergasse 3 | 1907 | Adapted from a residential building, devastated in 1938 |
| Brigittenau Temple | Synagogue of the Brigittenau Temple Association | 20th | Kluckygasse 11 | 1899-1900 | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Association synagogue Bene b'rith (synagogue Kaschlgasse ) | Association synagogue and community center ("Sons of Israel") | 20th | Kaschlgasse 4 | 1931 | Devastated in 1938 (today a supermarket and residential building) |
| Association synagogue, Anschedath Wozedek | ("Men of Law and Justice") | 20th | Traunfelsgasse 3 | ? | |
| Floridsdorf Temple | 21st | Holzmeistergasse 12 | 1875-77 | Closed in 1938, structurally destroyed by bombing in 1945 | |
| Atzgersdorf synagogue | 23. | Dirmhirngasse 112 | 1900 | Destroyed in 1938 | |
| (Prayer houses) | (from 1945) | (gone) | |||
| Club house of Agudas Israel | ("United Israel") | 1. | Grünangergasse 1 | ? | also at the Leopoldstadt Temple |
| Vereinsbethaus Agudas Jeshurun | ("Association of the People of Israel") | 1. | Marc-Aurel-Straße 2b, staircase 7 | ? | |
| Club house of Kehilath Jakob | ("Church of Jacob") | 1. | Judengasse 11 | ? | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Club house of the Machsike Hadath | ("Strengthener of Faith") | 1. | Lazzenhof 2 | ? | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Club house of the Machsike Torah | ("Strengthener of the Torah") | 1. | Schönlaterngasse 6 | ? | Destroyed in 1938 |
| Misrachi club house | 1. | Judenplatz 8 | ? | ||
| Club house of the Achwa we reuth | ("Friendship and Fraternity") | 2. | Taborstrasse 59 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Achduth Israel (Rembrandt Temple) | ("Unity of Israel") | 2. | Rembrandtstrasse 32, Hof | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Agudas Achim | ("United Brothers") | 2. | HammerPurgstallgasse 5 (6?) | ? | |
| Agudas Stretyner Chassidimin club house | 2. | Schreygasse 12 | ? | ||
| Association house of the Beth Hamidrash Torah Ez Chaim | ("House of Learning for the Torah, Tree of Life") | 2. | Große Schiffgasse 8, 1st pc. | 1864 | Devastated in 1938 |
| Beth Jakob Josef Association House | ("House of Jacob and Joseph") | 2. | Novaragasse 40 | ? | |
| Beth Jitschok club house | 2. | Wohlmuthstrasse 21 | ? | ||
| Vereinsbethaus Beth Josef | ("Joseph's House") | 2. | Stuwerstraße 10 | ? | |
| Club house of Bojaner Hasidim | 2. | Große Schiffgasse 13 | ? | ||
| Hasidim club house by Sandzer Klaus | Follower of the rabbi of Sandz / Galicia | 2. | Floßgasse 9 | ? | |
| Hasidim club house by Sadagorer Klaus | 2. | Herminengasse 8 | ? | ||
| Emes Wescholaum club house | ("Truth and Peace") | 2. | Grosse Schiffgasse 24 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Ezra Yisroel | ("Help Israel") | 2. | Novaragasse 13 | ? | |
| Even Haboinim club house | ("Stone of the Builder") | 2. | Exhibition Street 11 | ? | |
| Private prayer house Israel Friedmann | Grand Rabbi Israel Friedmann from Czortkowin | 2. | Heinestrasse 35 (8?) | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus the Gemilath Chesed | ("Charity") | 2. | Lilienbrunngasse 18 | ? | |
| Club house of Hamidrash Torah and Chayim | ("Learning for the Torah, Tree of Life") | 2. | Große Schiffgasse 8 | ? | at the old ship school |
| Jeschuath Achim club house | ("Brotherly Help") | 2. | Darwingasse 21 | ? | |
| Club house of K'hal Hasidim | ("Congregation of Hasidim") | 2. | Franz-HochedlingerGasse 2 | ? | |
| Club house of K'hal Hasidim | ("Congregation of Hasidim") | 2. | Große Schiffgasse 8 | ? | at the old ship school |
| Vereinsbethaus Livia Chen | ("Gracefulness") | 2. | Hollandstraße 2 / Obere Donaustraße 89 | ? | |
| Machsike Hadass club house | ("Consolidation of Faith") | 2. | Grosse Mohrengasse 19 | ? | |
| Club house of Machsike Hadath Nachlath Jakob | ("Consolidation of Faith as Jacob's Legacy") | 2. | Haidgasse 1 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Marpe Lanefesh | ("Healing of the soul") | 2. | Glockengasse 4 | ? | |
| Meischisch Jeschuah club house | ("Help") | 2. | Josefinengasse 7 | ? | |
| Club house Mikdosch M'at | ("Small Sanctuary") | 2. | Franz-HochEdlingergasse 8 | ? | |
| Association house of the Misrachi regional association for Austria | 2. | Praterstrasse 60 | ? | ||
| Montefiori club house | 2. | Taborstrasse 38 | ? | ||
| Vereinsbethaus Ohel Jakob | ("Jacob's Tent") | 2. | Floßgasse 9 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Ohel Moshe | ("Tent of Moses") | 2. | Lilienbrunngasse 19 | ? | |
| Ojse Chesed club house | ("Humanitas") | 2. | Schiffamtsgasse 5 | ? | Association founded in 1891 |
| Club house Ojse Chesed wu Emes | ("Humanitas and Truth") | 2. | Grosse Sperlgasse 31 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Or Torah | ("Light of the Torah") | 2. | Czerninplatz 4 | ? | |
| Petach Tikwah club house | ("Door to Hope") | 2. | Stuwerstraße 1 | ? | |
| Club house "Prater" | 2. | Ennsgasse 17 | ? | ||
| Club house of the Prater Charity Association | 2. | Stuwerstraße 48 (8?) | ? | ||
| Scheeris Jisroel club house | ("The Remaining" or "the rest of Israel") | 2. | Lower Augartenstrasse 35 | ? | |
| Tefilath Jeschurun club house | ("Prayer of the Jews") | 2. | Sebastian-KneippGasse 14 | ? | Association founded in 1914 |
| Tomche Torah club house | ("Support of the Torah Doctrine") | 2. | Obermüllergasse 17 | ? | |
| Association house of the association for the support of small Jewish traders | 2. | Malzgasse 1a | ? | ||
| Club House of Vienna Yeschiwah | ("Consolidation of Faith") | 2. | Grosse Mohrengasse 19 | ? | |
| Zebner Klaus club house | 2. | Malzgasse 12a | ? | ||
| Association house of the Israelitischer Bethausverein Erdbergstrasse 15 | 3. | Erdbergstrasse 15 | ? | with Talmud Torah school | |
| Club house on Obere Landstrasse | 3. | Steingasse 18 | ? | ||
| Oseh Tow club house | ("You do good") | 3. | Radetzkystraße 27 | ? | |
| Association house of the Shomer Israel | ("Guardian of the People of Israel") | 3. | Hetzgasse 40, courtyard | ? | |
| Machsike Thora club house | 4th | Wiedner Hauptstrasse 83 | ? | ||
| Ahawath Achim club house | ("Brotherly love"; formerly Westend ) | 6th | Millergasse 43 | ? | |
| Club house new building | Association house of the Jewish Association new building | 7th | Schottenfeldgasse 60 | ? | |
| Prayer room in the Vienna General Hospital (AKH) | Hospital chaplaincy of the IKG | 9. | Währinger Gürtel 18–20, level 5 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Adass Jeshurun | ("Community of Jews") | 9. | Pfluggasse 5 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Beth Hamidrasch Ohel Abraham | ("Teaching house, tent of Abraham") | 9. | Grünentorgasse 28 | ? | |
| Beth Jakob Association House | ("House of Jacob") | 9. | Müllnergasse 24 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Ezra Isroel | ("Help for Israel") | 9. | Stroheckgasse 5 | ? | |
| Private house of prayer Israel Friedmann | Grand Rabbi Israel Friedmann from Husiatyn | 9. | Nussdorfer Strasse 14 | ? | |
| Ansche Emes club house | ("Men of Truth") | 10. | Favoritenstrasse 106 | ? | |
| Newe Scholaun club house | ("Home of Peace") | 10. | Rotenhofgasse 22 | ? | |
| Association house Auhawe Israel | ("Love for Israel") | 14th | Sturzgasse 40 | ? | |
| Ahawath Scholaum club house | ("Love of peace") | 16. | Lindauergasse 5 | ? | |
| Scheweth Achim club house | ("Community Fraternity") | 16. | Neulerchenfelder Strasse 64 | ? | |
| Gemilath Chesed Club House | ("One exercises grace") | 17th | Thelemangasse 8 | ? | (T4) |
| Agudas Yeschurim club house | ("Association of the People of Israel") | 20th | Gaussplatz 4 | ? | |
| Ansche Emunah club house | ("Men of Faith") | 20th | Karl-Meißl-Strasse 2 | ? | |
| Eisig Hager private prayer house | Rabbi Eisig Hager | 20th | Bäuerlegasse 20 | ? | |
| Jeschioth Chaim club house | ("Help for salvation") | 20th | Karl-Meißl-Strasse 2 | ? | |
| Private house of prayer, Shalom Hagerin | Rabbi Shalom Hagerin | 20th | Staudingergasse 14 | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Schomre Habrith | ("Guardian of the Covenant") | 20th | Heinzelmanngasse 20 (formerly Hannovergasse 4) | ? | |
| Vereinsbethaus Schomre Hadath | ("Guardian of the Law") | 20th | Othmargasse 34 | ? | |
| Club house Temicho uwikur Chaulim | ("Support and care for the sick") | 20th | Treustraße 7 | ? | |
| Tomchei Jeschurun club house | ("Support of the People of Israel") | 20th | Allerheiligengasse 1 | ? | |
| Association house of the Zionist district section | 20th | Jägerstrasse 30 | ? | ||
| Club house "Zwischenbrücken" | 20th | Mortaraplatz 1 | ? | ||
| Prayer house | 22nd | Schüttaustraße 45 | ? | (at that time part of Leopoldstadt) |
- Sources: existing: ikg-wien.at; Deviated: Unless otherwise noted, David magazine searches are the source of the information
Monuments and memorial stones
Monument to the Leopoldstadt Temple
Memorial stone for the Simmering Temple
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Memorial plaque for the Schmalzhoftempel (6.)
Memorial plaque for the Humboldt Temple (10.)
Memorial plaque for the Währinger temple
Memorial plaque to the Jewish club house in Thelemangasse (17.) (T4)
Memorial sign Stumpergasse / Schmalzhofgasse (6.) (T5)
See also
Sources and individual references
- Synagogues and prayer houses , ikg-wien.at.
- Pierre Geneé, Bob Martens, Barbara Schedl: Jewish places of worship in Vienna before 1938. In: David. Jewish culture magazine. No. 59, (December 2003) (accessed August 18, 2008)
- Bob Martens, Katharina Kohlmaier: What happened to the properties on which there were synagogues in Vienna? In: David. Jewish culture magazine. No. 77, (summer 2008) (accessed on August 18, 2008)
- Cultural property portal of the City of Vienna: Layer Jewish Synagogues (wien.gv.at).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook of the City of Vienna 1930–1935 . New episode. 3rd volume. Edited by the Municipal Department for Statistics. Vienna 1935, p. 204.
- ↑ Bucharian community has existed since the 1970s; Sephardic Center / Bucharian Community (Association of the Bukharan Jews of Austria, bucharian-gemeinde.at)
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↑ a b Center of the Sephardic Association of Austria ( Sephardim ); Sephardic Center , on buchbaren-gemeinde.at;
Sephardim in Vienna: The unknown Jews - Bukharans, Georgians and Caucasians make up the group of oriental Jews , Ida Labudivic, Die Presse , July 7, 2009. - ↑ a b Association founded in 1990; Or Chadasch Liberal Jewish Community (orchadasch.at)
- ↑ a b c Maimonides Center 1972–2009 in 19 ,. Bauernfeldgasse 4, there was a girls' orphanage there from 1902 to 1942; Maimonides Center (maimonides.at)
- ↑ a b c Originally Jewish private secondary school 1919–23 1., Drahtgasse 4; then Castellezgasse 35 (1927 Chajesrealgymnasium ); 1935 / 36–39 2., Staudingergasse; re-established in 1980 as primary school 1., Seitenstettengasse 4; 1983 2nd again, Castellezgasse 35; 2008 Opening of the new school center. Zwi Perez Chajes School (zpc.at)
- ↑ according to JJ32 Heinestrasse 8
- ↑ according to JJ32 Stuwerstraße 8
- ↑ A memorial plaque made of light commemorates the Jewish residents of the house at Schottenfeldgasse 60 In: Rathauskorrespondenz. September 30, 2004.