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Mass graves

DEUTSCHKREUTZ
The 22,000 m² large cemetery has served since 1842 as a burial site for the Deutschkreutz Jewish community. In 1944/45, 400 Hungarian Jewish slave laborers were killed and buried in a mass grave. In 1991, the cemetery was renovated with funds from the province and the association of former Burgenland Jewish residents.
The Deutschkreutz municipality maintains the cemetery and especially mayor Kölly works on that topic. In 2009, the municipality funded a special refurbishing of the cemetery. The Carl Goldmark museum in the main street 54 was established by the municipality.

EISENSTADT
From 1679–1874, 1125 people were buried in the old cemetery next to the Brothers of Mercy Hospital. In the newer cemetery, 278 have found their final resting place. In his 1922 book, Bernhard Wachstein recorded the gravestone inscriptions of the old cemetery. In 1995, the curator of the Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt, Johannes Reiss, published a work on the inscriptions.
The Eisenstadt city government cares for both cemeteries.

FRAUENKIRCHEN
The 2,900 m² area has 1320 graves. In 1994, the Verein Shalom organized many volunteers to repair the cemetery, provided for the installation of a new gate and handed over the restored cemetery to the custody of the Frauenkirchen municipality.

GATTENDORF
The 2733 m² large cemetery lies, even today, far from the built-up area of the town. Since the mid-19th century, it has also served as a burial ground for the nearby villages of Nickelsdorf und Neudörfl.
The state of the cemetery is bad, urgent appeals to the community were not successful. Because of imminent risks, in 2009, the Vienna Jewish Community (IKG) undertook rehabilitation measures.

GÜSSING
During the Nazi period, the cemetery was robbed of its gravestones. To return the area to its cemetery character, the Verein Schalom installed symbolic gravestones and a memorial.
The Güssing municipality maintains the cemetery.

KITTSEE
The Kittsee municipality maintains the 11,633 m² large cemetery founded in the 18th century.
It is the only Jewish cemetery protected under the Hague Convention. It needs renovation and entry is not without danger. Because of imminent risks, in 2009, the Vienna Jewish Community (IKG) undertook rehabilitation measures.

KOBERSDORF
The Jewish community of Kobersdorf created this 5690 m² large cemetery in the middle of the 19th century. Today, 1200 graves have been recorded.
The state of this picturesque wooded cemetery is of concern. Former residents of Kobersdorf are discussing with the local government about a refurbishment of the cemetery.

LACKENBACH
The oldest gravestone in the 9,765 m² large graveyard dates back to 1729. Up to 1938, 1,747 deceased had been buried here. The Verein Schalom renovated the cemetery in 1994/95 and, among other things, on the northern end of the cemetery constructed an access road and parking lot.
The province financially supports the Jewish community to maintain the cemetery.

MATTERSBURG
During the Nazi period, the over 20,000 m² large cemetery was robbed of most gravestones. In the 1960s, a memorial was created from the scattered debris. From the pieces lying around on the ground, symbolic gravestones were erected to preserve the cemetery’s character. At the cemetery’s entrance, the municipality’s history of the Jews ends at the Nazi period.
The municipality maintains the cemetery and plans a renovation during the summer of 2009.

OBERWART
This cemetery is part of the local municipal cemetery. It was only created in the interwar period.
The municipality has taken over its care.

RECHNITZ
The cemetery was created in 1833. The municipality maintains it. In the ruins of the so-called “Kreuzstadels” is the memorial for the approximately 200 Hungarian Jewish slave laborers murdered on the spot in the fall of 1945.

STADTSCHLAINING
It is the last of the original three cemeteries of Stadtschlaining. Only a few tombstones bear witness to the character of the place.
With support of the provincial government, in 1997/98, the Verein Shalom erected a memorial and fenced in the cemetery.

CARINTHIA

BADEN
At around 14,000 m², and thus the largest Jewish cemetery in Lower Austria, it has existed from 1873 until today. The 2,200 persons buried in the cemetery include members of the Jewish community of Baden, as well as guests from all parts of the Danube Monarchy who died during a spa treatment in Baden.
The Chevra Kadisha in Baden cooperates with the Jewish Community of Baden bei Wien to maintain the cemetery.

More information: www.juedischegemeinde.at

BAD PIRAWARTH
The local cemetery’s 85 m² Jewish section (walled area to the right of the main entrance) was created at the latest in 1879. The last burial took place in 1938. The deceased were members of the established Jewish families in Bad Pirawath.
The Bad Pirawath municipality maintains the cemetery.

B 7 (Brünnerstraße) until the turn off to Kollnbrunn after Pirawarth – I[ the hill to the local church’s parking lot to the cemetery entrance

Contact: Ida Olga Höfler
+43/2282-2115 or +43/676-7287931

DEUTSCH WAGRAM
The 1838 m² large cemetery was dispossessed by the Nazis and given to the Deutschen Reichsbahn ("German Reich Railway") as an operating site. No gravestones are preserved. Only a memorial plaque on a small hill at the entrance (gate) commemorates the dead buried here.
Despite urgent appeals to the Deutsch–Wagram municipality, the site is unkempt.

DÜRNKRUT
The 1,661 m² large cemetery adjacent to the local cemetery was bought in 1904 by the Chevra Dadischa of Dürnkrut. Access possible through the lane to Waldbad (entrance on the north side of the wall).
The Dürnkrut municipality should maintain the cemetery (alleged oral care agreement).
However, despite urgent appeals, the cemetery appears to be neglected. In the past, villagers, through their own initiative and funds, have mowed the grass.

GÄNSERNDORF
The 1,485 m² large cemetery with 120 graves was created in 1884. The last burial took place in June 1938. The deceased had belonged to the Gänserndorf Jewish community.
The Gänserndorf municipality and the Verein Helikon maintain the cemetery in exemplary conditions.
Guided tours: May to October, on first Sunday of month at 14.30 clock.

GÖTTSBACH
The 2,791 m² large cemetery was founded in the middle of the 19th century. The Jewish community of Ybbs and from the southern and western Waldviertel region buried their dead here. Because of a lack of knowledge of their exact location, the gravestones discovered after 1945 were set up again in a double row in the center of the cemetery.
A caretaker who lives on the premises maintains the cemetery.

GROSS-ENZERSDORF
The 1,180 m² large cemetery was founded in 1889. The last funeral took place in 1938. The cemetery has 86 gravesites that appear to have been damaged by vandals.
The cemetery appears to be unkempt.

HOHENAU
Until the establishment of the cemetery in 1879 the deceased of small Jewish communities were buried in their home community or transferred to St. Johann an der March (Moravský Svätý Ján, Slovakia). The 1,811 m² walled area contains about 110 tombstones. The last burial took place in December 1937.
The Hohenau municipality maintains the cemetery.

HOLLABRUNN
The cemetery is located just outside the city. The last burial took place in 1978.
The municipality agreed to maintain the cemetery and the general condition is good.

HORN
The Jewish community of Horn built the 1,219 m² large cemetery in 1873. In its 107 graves, 177 deceased have been buried. The last burial was in 1938.
There is a need for renovation, the condition has worsened recently.

KORNEUBURG
Since 1915, the city cemetery has used a distinct horticultural border to mark a Jewish section to the right of the main entrance (in the corner) at Stockerauer Straße. The Jewish section maintained by the village cemetery administration has 9 tombstones and 12 funerary slabs donated by the Chevra Kadisha.
The maintenance condition is excellent.

KREMS
The 20,980 m² large cemetery built in 1860 has 500 gaves, including the graves of those who were buried in another cemetery before 1938. In 1995 at the initiative of the “Vereins zur Erhaltung des jüdischen Friedhofs in Krems” (Association to preserve the Jewish cemeteries in Krems) a memorial was built to those Jews from Krems who were victims of the Shoah.
The cemetery is maintained by prisoners of the Stein penal institution with the support of Vienna’s Jewish Community. An initiative of Dr.Robert Streibel will seek to ensure restoration of the cemetery (see also www.streibel.at and www.judeninkrems.at)

MARCHEGG
Since at least 1887, the city cemetery has had a Jewish section. In 1938, the 203 m² large burial ground was leveled, the stones were stolen and the last tombstone was taken in 1958. In 2004, a memorial was placed outside the cemetery wall at the lower exit.

MICHELNDORF
The 344 m² large cemetery was created in 1888 and is difficult to find in woods off the main road. It only has five gravestones made from sandstone. The other gravestones were stolen by a stonemason from Tulln in 1938 and used for purposes other than their original intentions. The thief also burned down the small mortuary house.
After years of neglect, in 2009, the local community cleaned the forest cemetery. A citizen’s initiative seeks to improve the location.

MISTELBACH
The cemetery founded in 1898 has 112 graves. The first burial took place in 1900; the last was in 1938. The municipality Mistelbach maintains the cemetery.

MÖDLING
The first funeral at the 3203 m² large cemetery took place in 1876. Up until 1938, 373 Jews from Mödling and the surrounding communities were buried here.
The Verein Shalom renovated the cemetery in 1995.
The Mödling municipality now cares for it.

NEULENGBACH
The 683 m² large cemetery was created in 1871 by the local minyan. Today, it has 71 graves. During World War II, 15 tombstones were confiscated by the municipality and sold.
The municipality Neulengbach now maintains the cemetery. The conditions are unsatisfactory.

NEUNKIRCHEN
Until the establishment of the cemetery at the end of the 19th Century, the deceased of the community were buried in what was west Hungary, in Kobersdorf or Lackenbach. The cemetery has an area of 2,830 meters and has 150 graves.

OBERSTOCKSTALL
This cemetery was founded in 1887 and served as a burial site for the Jewish community of Kirchberg am Wagram and the surrounding villages. It has 43 graves.
The Kirchberg municipality maintains it in an unsatisfactory condition.

ST. PÖLTEN
The cemetery in today's provincial capital was founded in 1895 by the St. Polten Chevra Kadisha. It borders on the city’s cemetery and has a size of over 6,205 m² with 181 graves.
With state funding, it was renovated in 1996 and since then has been maintained by the city of St. Pölten.

TULLN
The small cemetery has only a few gravestones. Symbolic gravestones have been set up to evoke the true character of the cemetery. A memorial notes the fate of the Jewish inhabitants of the city and the cemetery.

WAIDHOFEN/TH.
The 1203 m² large cemetery was founded at the end of the 19th century. It has 171 graves.
The municipality of Waidhofen cares for the cemetery.

WIENER NEUSTADT
The first burial in the cemetery took place in 1889, the last in 1938. The city government of Wiener Neustadt cares for the cemetery with 250 graves. Five restored medieval tombstones were installed in summer 2009.
In 2009, an extensive restoration was developed by the initiative “Aktion Kulturdenkmal Jüdischer Friedhof Wiener Neustadt”.

GRAZ
The approximately 18,000 m² cemetery has 1453 graves. Founded in 1865, the cemetery still serves today as the burial place of the Jewish community of Graz. In 1997/98 the Verein Shalom, volunteers of the 5th Jägerregiment of the village of Straß, as well as pupils from a Grazer gymnasium refurbished the cemetery.
The Jewish Community of Graz cares for the cemetery.

HETZENDORF/JUDENBURG
The cemetery was founded in the middle of the 18th Century.
In 1997, the state helped Verein Shalom build an access road with a parking lot.

KNITTELFELD
The cemetery served as a burial ground for the small Jewish community of Knittelfeld.
It is maintained by the municipality Knittelfeld.

LEOBEN
No gravestones have been preserved of the Jewish cemetery in the eastern part of the communal cemetery. A monument notes the former purpose of the place.

CENTRAL CEMETERY ENTRANCE I
1110 Vienna, Simmeringer Hauptstrasse

With the 19th century expansion of Vienna, the Jewish community founded in 1877, a burial site of 260,000 m². Up to 1916, up to 80,000 were buried there. Of the 60,000 graves, nearly 3,000 were destroyed in 1945 by errant bombs.
The cemetery is cared for by employees of IKG - as far as the limited financial resources allow. The Vienna city government’s department MA 7 currently prepares the restoration of 36 honorary graves.

CENTRAL CEMETERY ENTRANCE IV
1110 Vienna, Simmeringer Hauptstr. 244

This 250,000 m² large cemetery has been in use since 1916, when the Jewish section in Tor I became too small. Up to now, 60,000 Jewish community members have found their final resting place here. This includes the reburial in the eighties of those buried in the Döblinger cemetery during the 19th century and also the reburial in the years 1938-1945 of the so–called “non–Aryan” Christians.
The cemetery is maintained by employees of the IKG and is the seat of cemetery administration.
The Vienna city government’s department MA 7 has restorated 21 honorary graves in 2008 / 09.

CEMETERY IN OF THE "ROSSAU"
1090 Vienna, Seegasse 9/ Entrance from Pensionistenheim (retirement home)

This cemetery goes back to the middle of the 16th Century and is the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Vienna and also the oldest cemetery of Vienna. It was in use until 1783. Floodwaters from the Danube continually displaced the gravestones and after the receeding of the flood were only placed close to their original locations. Flood control on the Danube helped resolve the problem. To avoid destruction the remaining gravestones were placed in 1943 in the Zentralfriedhof, Tor IV. In 1984, they were returned and set up again in the original cemetery.
The cemetery is now maintained by the board of trustees of the Pensionistenheim (retirement home) and maintained by Vienna’s parks and gardens service.
In spite of a historic legal agreement between the expelled Jews of Vienna and Vienna's Imperial city council, the restoration progresses slowly and requires an annual search for a subsidy.

WAEHRINGER CEMETERY
1180 Vienna, Semperstrasse 64A / Schrottenberggasse
Purchased in 1784 by the strongly growing Jewish community, the steadily expanding cemetery was used until 1879 as the central burial sote of the Jewish community. In total, 8593 deceased were laid to rest in the 21,209 m² large cemetery. Efforts are underway to renovate the cemetery keeper's house and the cemetery.
The cemetery currently does not have regular maintenance and awaits the restoration of historically valuable gravestones. On the initiative of the Nationalratspräsident (president of the national council) Mag. Prammer, it has been decided to do a preliminary study on the rehabilitation costs of the cemetery.

CEMETERY FLORIDSDORF
1210 Vienna, Ruthnergasse 28
Originally built by the Floridsdorf Jewish community, the 5,566 m² cemetery was founded after the incorporation of Vienna’s suburbs into the Jewish community of Vienna. From 1873 until today, 1391 burials have taken place.
The cemetery is maintained with the support of the municipal district’s office, the Chevra Kadisha and private sources of the Jewish community.

FELIXDORF (Lower Austria)
In the years 1944/45, 2,000 Hungarian–Jewish slave laborers from the Felixdorf concentration camp were buried in a mass grave. The Vienna Jewish Community built the memorial in 1945.

GÖSTLING (Lower Austria)
The Göstling cemetery has a memorial and a grave for the 78 Hungarian slave labors who died from exhaustion or were murdered on the march to Mauthausen.
The local community maintains the burial site.

ZISTERSDORF (Lower Austria)
A 23 until the end - B8 until Angern - B 49 until Dürnkrut, tun left to reach Zistersdorf
Until 1938, the city cemetery had a Jewish section. During the Nazi-regime the separation wall and gravestones were removed. The approximately 200 grave plots were incorporated into the cemetery and filled with Christian deceased. In 2003, a memorial plaque was placed on the left wall at the rear exit.

SCHATTENDORF (Burgenland)
Gravesite for 27 Hungarian Jewish slave laborers who died from October 1944 to April 1945 in the Schattendorf concentration camp.