The ''Polnische Schul'' (Pronunciation:
pɔlnɪʃə ʃuːl pl, Synagoga Polska w Wiedniu, English: "Polish synagogue") was a
synagogue
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...
in
Leopoldsgasse,
Vienna
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It was built by the noted architect
Wilhelm Stiassny
Wilhelm Stiassny (15 October 1842, Pressburg (Bratislava) 11 July 1910, Bad Ischl) was a Jewish Austrian architect.
Personal life
From 1857 to 1861, he studied at the Polytechnic in Vienna and afterwards studied architecture at the Academy of Fin ...
in 1892. It was built specifically for the
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
Jew
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...
ish community in the late 19th century. The ''Polnische Schul'' was destroyed during the ''
Reichskristallnacht
() or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) paramilitary and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from ...
'' in 1938. Today a modern building stands there with a ''Tafel''.
Jews from Galicia, the part of Poland in the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the division of Poland (1795), were known as Polish Jews in Vienna. This was one of their places of worship.
Literature
* Bob Martens, Herbert Peter: "The Destroyed Synagogues of Vienna - Virtual city walks". Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2011.
Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Austria
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Jewish Galician (Eastern Europe) history
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Synagogues completed in 1892
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