À propos de ce lieu
Bethlehemstraße 26 was the spiritual heart of Jewish Linz for six decades. The neo Romanesque synagogue consecrated here on 10 May 1877, designed after the model of Albrecht Rosengarten's Kassel synagogue, rose on a raised platform above its neighbours with round arched windows and galleries on cast iron columns, and it served a community that grew to nearly one thousand members in the 1920s. Around 650 Jews still lived in Linz at the Anschluss of March 1938. In the November pogrom, SA men ransacked and torched the building, then combed through Jewish homes and ordered the residents to leave the city within three days. The community was driven to Vienna, and from there its members were scattered by emigration or deportation; roughly 300 Jews from the region were murdered. The blackened ruins lay here until 1967. In 1965 the Upper Austrian government funded a new building as a gesture of restitution, and the plain modernist synagogue by architect Fritz Goffitzer was dedicated on 2 April 1968. A memorial plaque with the names of the murdered Jewish citizens of Linz now hangs at its entrance.
À retenir
- 1877 year — The first synagogue of Linz was consecrated here on 10 May 1877
- 650 members — Approximate size of the Jewish community of Linz at the Anschluss in March 1938
- 1968 year — The new synagogue by Fritz Goffitzer was dedicated on 2 April 1968 on the ruins of the old one
📍 Bethlehemstraße 26, 4020, Linz