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Commemorative plaque in memory of the new building of the club house

The Neubau association's prayer house was a Jewish prayer house in Vienna's 7th district, Neubau , at Schottenfeldgasse 60. Today, a plaque commemorates the only Jewish prayer house in Neubau , the installation of which became a political issue for years.

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Before 1938, the proportion of the Jewish population in the Neubau district was well above the Vienna-wide average and in 1934 made up 14.8% of the district's population. Nevertheless, the Neubau Jews only got their own prayer house in the 1930s. The Neubau Association's prayer house was under the control of the Neubau Jewish Association and housed a prayer house, a Hebrew school and apartments for Jewish families. The project was initiated by the Neubau association and the then district chairman Emil Maurer , who was deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 with the first "transport of celebrities " . Originally, from 1780 onwards, the building belonged to a carter , a roast roaster, a trimmers , a baker and an Austro-Hungarian electrician purveyor to the court . In 1933 Otto Engler finally acquired the property, who left the building to the Prayer House Association. In 1938 the building was destroyed during the November pogrom and illegally expropriated in 1940, later sold to Alfred and Maria Anna Polsterer. These remained in the building's possession even after restitution proceedings in the post-war period.

On March 1, 1988, the Neubau district council unanimously decided to put up a plaque to commemorate the Jewish prayer house, but this failed because of the refusal of the house owners and heirs of the beneficiaries of Aryanization . In November 1988 a group of anti-fascists protested against the behavior of the homeowners by putting up a makeshift plaque in front of the house. Finally, in 2004, after many years of efforts by the Socialist Youth in the district, a commemorative plaque was placed on public land ten centimeters in front of the building. The specialty of the design by the architect Xaver Marschalek is that the inscription milled into the metal plate is projected onto the house wall by the sunlight. The inscription in German and Hebrew after a poem by Erich Fried reads in German:

" What no one would have believed, what no one could have known, what no one should have suspected, that will again have been what no one wanted to have wanted ."

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 12.6 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 35.7"  E