The Palais Todesco sits at the corner of the Ringstrasse, recognizable by the ornate, heavy iron balconies jutting out from its pale stone facade. Eduard Todesco, a wealthy banker and patron of the arts, commissioned the building in the…
Jewish History of Vienna
This walk traces the history of Vienna's Jewish community from the Middle Ages through the heights of the 19th century to the tragic events of the Holocaust and post-war survival. We will visit historic synagogues, poignant memorials, and former community landmarks to honor this enduring heritage.
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1. Palais Todesco
2. Monument Against War and Fascism
The Monument Against War and Fascism consists of several stark white Carrara marble blocks rising from the pavement of Albertinaplatz. Alfred Hrdlicka carved these figures in nineteen eighty-eight to confront the darkest years of the…
3. Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna
The Palais Eskeles on Dorotheergasse houses the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna. Its facade displays classic nineteenth-century Viennese architecture, but the building holds a collection started by Max Berger. Berger, a Holocaust…
4. Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial features a massive, concrete block shaped like a library with its shelves turned inward. Sculptor Rachel Whiteread created this structure to honor the sixty-five thousand Austrian Jews murdered by the…
5. Stadttempel
The Stadttempel is a synagogue hidden behind a plain residential facade on Seitenstettengasse. While Austrian law at the time prohibited non-Catholic houses of worship from having a street-facing entrance, the Jewish community cleverly…
6. Denkmal Morzinpalais
The Morzinplatz memorial consists of a stark, jagged concrete block engraved with the names of the victims of the Gestapo headquarters that once stood here. During the second world war, the Gestapo occupied the former Hotel Metropole on…
7. אהל משה
The Ohel Moshe synagogue features a narrow, unassuming facade that hides behind a modest residential doorway on Lilienbrunngasse. Built in nineteen twelve, it was the only Orthodox Jewish house of prayer in Leopoldstadt that survived the…
8. Mahnmal mit vier weißen Säulen am Gelände des zerstörten Leopoldstädter Tempel
Four slender white pillars stand in an open square, rising from the pavement like the skeletal remains of a building. This marks the site of the Leopoldstädter Tempel, once the largest synagogue in Vienna. In nineteen thirty-eight, during…