Museum Judenplatz

Vienna was the home of a flourishing Jewish community in the Middle Ages, one of the largest and most important in Europe. Famous rabbis taught and lived there and made Vienna into a centre of Jewish learning. All this came to an abrupt end in 1420/21 with the persecution and murder of the members of the Viennese Jewish community. The remains of the medieval synagogue were excavated in 1995 and offer eloquent testimony to the life of the community and its destruction. They can be seen in a display underneath Judenplatz together with a selection of excavated objects. There is also a computer-animated virtual tour of the Jewish quarter and the synagogue.