Synagogue (Stadtschlaining)
The Synagogue Stadtschlaining is a former synagogue in the municipality of Stadtschlaining in Burgenland . The synagogue is on the courtyard side behind the listed rabbinate house and is used as a library by the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution .
history
The town's Jewish community was mentioned in a document as early as 1680, and in 1715 Count Sigmund I. Batthyány made a prayer room available to the Jewish community. The later synagogue should originally have been founded in the 18th century and was built in the back courtyard of the house at Hauptplatz No. 3. A renovation followed in 1864, presumably because the tolerant legislation of Count Ludwig Batthyány had increased the Jewish population of the place to 650 members. If the proportion of Jewish population rose to 40% of the population at that time, the number of community members fell again after the liberalization of the "Jewish laws" in what was then Hungary . In 1938 the synagogue was devastated during the November pogroms and the remaining Jews were expelled. The furnishings were lost during the war years. After the Second World War, the synagogue was empty for a long time. In the 1980s, the Austrian Institute for Peace Research bought the building and began renovating it. The ceiling paintings from the second half of the 19th century were also renovated. Today there is a public library in the synagogue.
Library
The current library in the former synagogue is a public library and contains more than 30,000 volumes as well as 150 domestic and foreign magazines.
literature
- Pierre Genée: Synagogue in Stadtschlaining. In: David. Jewish culture magazine. Volume 8, No. 30, September 1996.
Web links
- Jewish community of Schlaining. In: Regiowiki.at.
- List of Holocaust victims related to Schlaining. In: Regiowiki.at.
- History of the Jews in Burgenland. In: Regiowiki.at.
- Austrian Jewish Museum : The Schlaining synagogue. In: ojm.at.
Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 25 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ E