Judengasse
The historic Jewish lane in the Altstadt, a reminder of the medieval Jewish community expelled in 1498 under Leonhard von Keutschach. The lane preserves the memory of that community in its name.
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Jewish History
7 entries tagged Jewish History on Introducing Salzburg.
Marko-Feingold-Steg
Built 2001
A pedestrian bridge over the Salzach near Makartplatz, renamed in 2019 in honour of Marko Feingold, Holocaust survivor and longtime president of Salzburg's Jewish community. Originally known as the Makartsteg, named after Hans Makart.
Mauthausen Memorial
Mauthausen was a Category III Nazi concentration camp, the designation reserved for prisoners deemed beyond rehabilitation and therefore marked for the harshest treatment and certain death. Between 1938 and 1945, more than 190,000 people were imprisoned here; at least 90,000 were killed.
Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg
A dedicated research institute, museum, and event space celebrating Stefan Zweig, one of the most widely translated writers of the 20th century and a figure closely associated with Salzburg. Housed in the Palais Kieselburg at Schwarzstraße 26.
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People tagged Jewish History
Friedrich Welz
entrepreneur1903 - 1980
Salzburg art dealer who founded Galerie Welz, still operating on Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse. A close associate of Oskar Kokoschka. His record is shadowed by documented involvement in the acquisition of artworks from Jewish owners under duress following the 1938 Anschluss.
Marko Feingold
official1913 - 2019
One of the last living survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and longest-serving president of the Jewish community in Salzburg. Survived Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Dachau, and Buchenwald. A pedestrian bridge over the Salzach, the Marko Feingold Steg, was renamed in his honour after his death. He died in Salzburg aged 106.
Max Reinhardt
director1873 - 1943
Theatre director of extraordinary vision and co-founder of the Salzburg Festival. Reinhardt purchased Schloss Leopoldskron in 1918, which later inspired the Von Trapp villa in The Sound of Music. He staged the first Jedermann on Domplatz in 1920. Jewish, he fled the Nazis in 1938 and died in New York exile in 1943.