Synagoge Turnergasse, Jewish synagogue in Turnergasse Street, Vienna, Austria
Synagoge Turnergasse was a house of worship in Vienna's 15th district built to accommodate around 800 worshippers and drew inspiration from Italian Renaissance design. The building stood at Turnergasse 22 and functioned as a central gathering place for the local Jewish community.
The building was constructed in 1871 and served as a religious center for the community for seven decades. In November 1938 it was destroyed during a pogrom, one of 92 synagogues in Vienna that did not survive.
Maria Altmann, the heir to Gustav Klimt's paintings, celebrated her wedding ceremony at this synagogue before its destruction.
The former site is marked today by a memorial plaque installed in 1988 and sits in a residential neighborhood of the 15th district. The ground itself is not publicly accessible, but the plaque can be viewed from the street.
After destruction, the synagogue plot remained undeveloped for decades while residential buildings rose on the adjacent community house grounds between 1976 and 1979. This spatial imbalance is still visible today and reflects how Jewish community spaces were incompletely restored in the city.
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