Attack on Vienna Synagogue? It has been a target of attacks in the past

The city temple in the center of Vienna is one of the most important points of contact for the Jewish community in the Austrian capital.

There have been terrorist attacks on the synagogue in the past.

• The city temple is located on Seitenstettengasse in the center of Vienna's city center.

• The synagogue has been one of the most important Jewish institutions since the 19th century.

• There were terrorist attacks on the prayer house as early as 1979 and 1981.

Vienna - The

is one of the most important contact points for Jewish residents in

.

Especially because of its central location in the 1st district of the Austrian capital.

It used to be quite common for there to be many

and

in the immediate vicinity, so before 1938 the facilities were named after the streets or alleys.

The

has been in

since the 19th century

, which is why it is also called the

temple

.

The Jewish

was built by Josef Kornhausel in 1825 and 1826.

At that time he was considered to be the most important architect of Viennese Biedermeier and also designed the interior furnishings and cultural equipment.

The

, which is still located between residential buildings, was fitted into a block of flats at the time, as only Catholic places of worship were allowed to stand directly on the street.

Due to this location, the

was the only one of Vienna's 94 Jewish

and

to survive the November 1938 Nazi program unscathed.

In the

, a memorial by architect Thomas Feiger has been commemorating the time of National Socialism since 2002.

It is supposed

to save the

65,000 murdered Austrian

, whose names are engraved on rotating slates, from being forgotten.

A broken granite column symbolizes the Jewish community of

destroyed by the Nazis in 1938

.

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View into the interior of the City Temple in Seitenstettengasse in Vienna

© Herbert Neubauer / APA / dpa / picture alliance

In the past, the

in

already the target of

.

On April 22, 1979, half a kilogram of plastic explosives exploded in the courtyard.

Fortunately, there was “only” major damage to property, nobody was injured at the time.

In August 1981, a Palestinian extremist group also carried out an

on the

.

Two dead and 21 partly seriously injured was the sad result.

The

into the

during a service

, threw hand grenades and fired into the crowd.

In response, the

secured and protected by the police around the clock to this day.

Vienna Seitenstettentempel has been a target of terrorist attacks in the past

The history of the city of

is inextricably linked with

.

Until 1938 the capital of Austria had a thriving

with dozen

and

.

Including the

in

.

The situation changed fundamentally after the occupation of Austria by the German Wehrmacht in March 1938. A total of 140,000 Austrians had to flee their homeland “for racist reasons”.

Among them Sigmund Freud, who emigrated to England.

65,000 people who could not leave the country were murdered by the Nazis.