Malzgasse synagogue

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View of the courtyard of the former synagogue at Malzgasse 16 (Vienna)

The club synagogue Malzgasse is a former synagogue in Vienna district Leopoldstadt .

history

In 1850 the "Beth Hamidrash Talmud Torah" was founded, an Israelite prayer house association. Since the 1870s, there has been a Talmud Torah school at Malzgasse 16 in Vienna's second district , run by the association. In 1884, according to plans by Friedrich Schreier, a small one-story synagogue for around 100 people was also built there. In 1906 the Talmud Tora School was rebuilt according to plans by the architects Isidor Giesskann and Theodor Schreier and the synagogue was moved to the backyard. After renovations, the synagogue still exists today. From 1913 the first Jewish museum in the world was housed in Malzgasse. During the pogrom night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, the synagogue and school were set on fire and devastated, but not completely destroyed. The museum had already been closed by the Nazi rulers and the holdings had been confiscated. The Vienna fire brigade recorded the operation on November 10, 1938:

“The four-story Israelite elementary school burned down on all floors, as well as the adjoining prayer house. There was a risk of the fire spreading to the neighboring farm buildings and the house behind the prayer house. The backup was deleted with 3 hose lines. "

There was a risk of collapse. The fire brigade found “smoldering remains of fire” for three more days. As a result, the school building was used as a retirement home for the Israelite religious community . From June 1942 to October 1942 the former school served as a collection camp shortly before the mass deportations to the concentration and extermination camps in the east. After that, even after the fall of the Nazi regime, the hospital of the Council of Elders of the Jews was located there.

In 1956 the Talmud Tora School in Malzgasse, now run by the Machsike Hadas Association , was reopened. The former synagogue was temporarily misused as the school's gymnasium. In February 2018, cellars filled up to the ceiling were discovered during construction work. The archaeological processing of the finds recovered from the rubble led to an exhibition in the House of History Austria in November 2019 , which wanted to show "the complexity of Jewish-Austrian history".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770-1945 : Theodor Schreier , accessed on March 24, 2020
  2. ^ A b Vienna History Wiki : Synagogue of the Beth Hamidrash Talmud Torah association , accessed on March 24, 2020
  3. ↑ a b House of History Austria : No longer buried. Buried No Longer. , Jewish-Austrian history in the Wiener Malzasse, exhibition from November 19, 2019 (Flyer)

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 36.8 ″  E