Stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt

Stumbling blocks in front of the former officers' house of the air barracks in memory of people who were murdered by the Nazi regime in Stein an der Donau , in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp , in the Dachau concentration camp and in Hartheim Castle

The Stolpersteine ​​for Wiener Neustadt project was launched in October 2009 by the Aktion Mitmensch association and the street newspaper Eibisch-Zuckerl and takes care of the laying of stumbling blocks in Wiener Neustadt . So far, Gunter Demnig has laid more than a hundred stumbling blocks in the urban area of ​​Wiener Neustadt.

Foundation, goals and networking

When in 2008 a report by Anton Blaha about the Stolpersteine ​​laid in Mödling appeared in the street newspaper Eibisch-Zuckerl , which ended with the question: "Would such an action also be implemented in Wiener Neustadt?", A working group was quickly formed, supported by the editor Brigitte Haberstroh , the publisher Maximilian Huber and the historian Michael Rosecker . The working group was able to win over the historians Anton Blaha, Karl Flanner , a Wiener Neustadt resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, and Werner Sulzgruber , and convince the mayor Bernhard Müller of the usefulness of the project.

The primary objective of the initiative is the installation of original pitfalls by Gunter Demnig in the city. So far, relocation has taken place on July 24, 2010, July 4 and 5, 2011, March 26, 2012, April 22, 2013, July 5, 2014 and July 18, 2015. With now over 100 stumbling blocks is Wiener Neustadt is one of the most active cities outside Germany, after Salzburg (310), Oss and Oudewater (each with 263), Eindhoven (244), Rome (207), Gouda (183) and Rotterdam (128) in eighth place. The work of the initiative consists of the comprehensive biographical recording of the victims, the determination of the last place of residence, the obtaining of the official approval, the financing and the engagement of the artist who laid the stones personally, as well as the public relations and the website. Gaining the acceptance of the population and the city's institutions appears to be essential to the project. The commercial director of the Wiener Neustadt Regional Hospital, Andreas Gamlich: “The Stolpersteine ​​campaign for Wiener Neustadt is an important contribution to the historical coming to terms with the Second World War. Bending down to read the texts on the stumbling blocks is a symbolic bow to the victims and their fate. With the stumbling block for Alfred Wödl, there is now a place of remembrance in the State Hospital. "

The Jewish Community of Wiener Neustadt was already involved in the planning phase, and a number of its suggestions were adopted. The Vienna Center for Self-Determined Living BIZEPS printed a report by Anton Blaha about the Stolperstein project in its BIZEPS-Info magazine . At the Bundesrealgymnasium Gröhrmühlgasse, awareness-raising work was carried out and a fundraising campaign started, with the proceeds from which 26 further stumbling blocks could be financed. The Handelsakademie und Handelsschule Wiener Neustadt sponsored three stumbling blocks and financed them.

In April / May 2011 the Wiener Neustadt City Museum presented a special exhibition Paths of Destiny. The Jewish community in Wiener Neustadt opened its rooms for the project for a supplementary exhibition dedicated to the biographies of the Jewish families Müller (Baumkirchnerring 5) and Buxbaum (Gröhrmühlgasse 31). In June 2011 two of the initiators presented the goals of the project in Vienna's WUK . On November 3, 2011, a ceremony took place in the Wiener Neustadt City Theater , during which the historians Brigitte Bailer-Galanda and Werner Sulzgruber spoke and the project's book was presented. The ceremony was musically framed by students from the Burgplatz music school. The television reported.

The stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt achieved regional press coverage, the street newspaper Eibisch-Zuckerl , which co-founded the project, devoted a total of 22 articles to the project, some of them extensive. Vandalism files on the project received brief national attention in winter 2015; The standard and the ORF reported.

The association's website and the cooperating website on Wiener Neustädter Zeitgeschichte became the target of a hacker attack at the end of 2015, with the website being so destroyed that it actually has to be rebuilt. Shortly after the hacker attack, an acid attack on at least two stumbling blocks of the project was uncovered.

Selected stumbling blocks

The following stumbling blocks were, in some cases, multiple targets of vandalism. The stones for Gertrud and Johanna Hirsch were damaged twice with acid, the Stolpersteine ​​of the Breuer family were also damaged with acid , the brass sheet of the Stolperstein for Julius Puschek was completely chiseled away twice and the memorials for the Hacker family were painted twice with blue paint:

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  David Breuer

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  Franziska Breuer

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  Maier Hacker

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  Regine Hacker

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  Robert Hacker

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  Gertrude Hirsch

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  Johanna Hirsch

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  Julius Puschek

Stumbling blocks on four memory paths

→ Main article : "Wiener Neustadt" in the article List of stumbling blocks in Lower Austria

Downtown north Baumkirchnerring 5: Kurt Mueller Lazar Muller Paul Muller Ruth Muller Wolfgang Müller Ida Riegler b. Bash Irma Riegler Nathan Riegler Purgleitnergasse 46: Franz Winkelmann Gröhrmühlgasse 31: Julie Buxbaum Julius Buxbaum Margarete Buxbaum b. Bohenszky Max Buxbaum Martinsgasse 8: Heinrich Gerstl Raugasse 4: Emma Bauer born Winning Ernst Bauer Leopold Bauer Susanne Bauer Wiener Strasse 51: Alfred Höchstätter Kaiserbrunngasse 17: Johanna Schischa Wilhelm Schischa

Downtown south Kollonitschgasse 12: Berta Reininger Herzog-Leopold-Strasse 28: Paul Johannes Schlesinger Herzog-Leopold-Strasse 3: Arnold Lemberger Bella Lemberger born Kohn Hauptplatz 13: Gustav Robert Braunberg Wiener Strasse 13: Julius Duhl Hauptplatz 20: Ludwig Huber Grazer Strasse 95: Juliane Taul Kesslergeasse 15: Rudolf Müller Langegasse 5 / Lederergasse 1: Charlotte Pollak b. Eagle Edith Pollak Friedrich Pollak Inge Pollak

Ten quarters Neunkirchner Strasse 53: Arnold Beinhacker Eugen Beinhacker Margarethe Beinhacker b. Leitner Dietrichgasse 23: Maier Hacker Regine Hacker b. Deaf Robert Hacker Kaisersteingasse 7: Franz Seckl Hanni Delfine Seckl b. Grünfeld Kaisersteingasse 13: Johann Hödl Brunner Strasse 30: Heinrich Seckl Ignaz Seckl Wassergasse 9: Emma Poppinger

Serbenhalle / airfield Pottendorfer Strasse 121: Julius Puschek Pottendorfer Strasse 47/49: Memorial '' The Victims of the Concentration Camp in the Serb Hall '' Mießlgasse 43: Helga Pauer Wiener Strasse 95: Max Stössel Airfield belt 13/15: Karoline Formann Franz Kasteiner Heinrich Sauer Eduard Schaller Fischauergasse 100: Maria Wolf

In addition, other stumbling blocks were laid that have not yet been part of the path of remembrance. The two commemorative routes through the city center can be completed on foot; bicycles are recommended for the other two routes.

Book publications

In November 2011 a book about the Wiener Neustädter Stolpersteine ​​was published. It was presented at a ceremony to which relatives of the victims were invited. The book is called Stolpersteine ​​Wiener Neustadt - City Guide of Remembrance , was published by the initiators of the project, Brigitte Haberstroh, Maximilian Huber and Michael Rosecker, reflects the achievements of the working group and is published by the Verein Sportwetten Verlag . A number of well-known historians from all over Austria collaborated on the book, including Brigitte Bailer-Galanda from the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance , the child euthanasia expert Waltraud Häupl , Manfred Lang from the Renner Institute and SoHo, and Florian Wenninger from the Association for the Scientific Review of Contemporary History , all from Vienna, and Erika Thurner from the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck .

In 2014 the same publisher published the volume Wir re sorry ... Wiener Neustadt and Neudörfl in the wake of the Nazi euthanasia by Anton Blaha. Together with his wife, the author took over the biographical recordings of the Aktion T4 victims for the Wiener Neustädter Stolpersteine ​​project and finally presented his research in book form. The book was presented on November 13, 2014 in the Wiener Neustadt City Archives .

Planned stumbling blocks

A commemoration ceremony for Franz Leitner was held in Graz, Lagergasse 29 at the latest in 2016 . In Wr. Neustadt a stone is to be laid for him. (As of February 2, 2017)

literature

A stumbling block in Wiener Neustadt

• Brigitte Haberstroh , Michael Rosecker , Maximilian Huber (eds.): Stolpersteine ​​Wiener Neustadt - a city guide of remembrance. Association Everyday Publishing, Wiener Neustadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-902282-35-4 .

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Wiener Neustadt  - Collection of images

• Literature by and about stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt in the catalog of the German National Library

• Stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt , official website of the project
• Book presentation: Stolpersteine ​​WN , TV report by WNTV about the ceremony in the city theater

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Issue 34, October / November 2008
2. ↑ Landeskliniken-Holding Niederösterreich: Stumbling stone laying at the LK Wiener Neustadt ( memento from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on July 23, 2015.
3. ^ Jewish Community Wiener Neustadt: Thoughts and comments on the “Stolpersteine” project in Wiener Neustadt , accessed on July 25, 2015.
4. ↑ BIZEPS info: “Stumbling blocks” for Wiener Neustadt , October 10, 2010.
5. ↑ BRG Gröhrmüllergasse: The "stumbling blocks of the BRG Gröhrmühlgasse" ( Memento of 23 July 2015, Internet Archive ) , accessed on July 22, 2015.
6. ↑ Handelsakademie Wiener Neustadt: Sponsorship for three “stumbling blocks” ( memento from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on July 23, 2015.
7. ↑ enken.at: Exhibition: “Stolpersteine ​​des BRG Gröhrmühlgasse” in the Wiener Neustadt City Museum , accessed on July 22, 2015.
8. ↑ Verena Gappmaier : Stumbling blocks lecture at WUK m.power , June 9, 2011.
9. ↑ Radlobby: Ceremony of Stolpersteine ​​for Wiener Neustadt , accessed on July 23, 2015.
10. ↑ Musikmittelschule Wiener Neustadt: Stolpersteine ​​3.11.2011 , accessed on July 23, 2015.
11. ↑ see web link WNTV
12. ^ Stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt: newspaper article 2010 , accessed on July 23, 2015.
13. ↑ Stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt: Article in the street newspaper “Eibisch-Zuckerl” , accessed on July 23, 2015.
14. ^ Colette M. Schmidt: Stumbling blocks in Wiener Neustadt: Suspected acid attacks . In: Der Standard , March 6, 2015.
15. ^ ORF: Four "stumbling blocks" in Wr. Neustadt damaged , March 6, 2015.
16. ↑ The laying of stumbling blocks in Wiener Neustadt was also mentioned by a number of other media, cf. Die Presse : Graz: “Stolpersteine” remind of Nazi victims , July 29, 2013.
17. ↑ Report on Stoppdierechten.at ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) /
18. ↑ derStandard.at - New attacks on stumbling blocks in Wiener Neustadt . Article from January 14, 2016, accessed on January 14, 2016.
19. ↑ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : Stolpersteine ​​Wiener Neustadt - A City Guide of Remembrance , accessed on July 23, 2015.
20. ^ Association Daily Publishing , announcement of the book presentation by Anton Blaha, accessed on July 22, 2015.