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What happened to the Jews in Austria

226 events, 1196 AD to 2023 AD

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12th century

  1. 1196 AD Murder of Shlom and 15 other Jews in Vienna · Vienna, Austria

13th century

  1. 1237 AD Emperor Frederick II bars Jews from office in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  2. 1238 AD Charter of privileges granted to Vienna Jews · Vienna, Austria
  3. 1238 AD Jews of Vienna declared imperial serfs (servi camerae) · Vienna, Austria
  4. 1239 AD Frederick II bars Jews from certain offices in Wiener Neustadt · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  5. 1244 AD Duke Frederick II confirms exclusion of Jews from office in Wiener Neustadt · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  6. c. 1251 AD Ottocar II confirms exclusion of Jews from public office in Austrian cities · Austria
  7. 1267 AD Church councils of Breslau and Vienna mandate the Jewish pointed hat · Silesia, Poland and elsewhere
  8. 1267 AD Salzburg council orders Jewish men to wear horned hat · Salzburg, Austria
  9. 1267 AD Vienna Council imposes anti-Jewish canons · Vienna, Austria
  10. 1277 AD Curtailment of Jewish rights in Wiener Neustadt · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  11. 1293 AD Krems Jews accused of murder · Krems, Austria

14th century

  1. 1306 AD Korneuburg Jews killed or expelled after host libel · Korneuburg, Austria
  2. 1310 AD Violent persecution of Jews in Inner Austria (1310) · Carinthia, Austria
  3. 1335 AD General Jewish tax introduced in Carinthia · Carinthia, Austria
  4. 1337 AD Outrages against the Jews of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  5. 1337 AD Persecution of Jews in Krems (1337) · Krems, Austria
  6. 1337–1338 AD Pogrom in Bavaria, Austria · Bavaria, Germany and elsewhere
  7. c. 1338 AD Massacres of Jews in Lower Austrian towns · Retz, Austria and elsewhere
  8. 1338 AD Persecution of Jews at Wolfsberg · Wolfsberg, Austria
  9. 1347 AD Persecution of Jews in Krems (1347) · Krems, Austria
  10. 1348–1349 AD Massacre of Innsbruck Jews during the Black Death · Innsbruck, Austria
  11. 1349 AD Black Death massacres of Austrian Jews · Krems, Austria
  12. 1349 AD Black Death persecution of Salzburg Jews · Salzburg, Austria and elsewhere
  13. 1349 AD Persecutions in Salzburg's Carinthian territories · Friesach, Austria
  14. 1349–1352 AD Ban on return of converted Jews to Judaism · Salzburg, Austria
  15. 1360 AD Treaty barring settlement of Jews who left Austria or Bohemia · Austria and elsewhere
  16. 1362 AD Duke Rudolph IV issues Tötbriefe invalidating Jewish debts · Austria
  17. 1366 AD Ban on Jews engraving seals · Austria
  18. 1370 AD Confiscation of Jewish property in Austria · Austria
  19. 1370 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  20. 1370 AD Persecutions and spoliations of Jews in Carinthia and Styria · Carinthia, Austria
  21. 1371 AD Ban on Jewish sale of wine and grain in Styria · Styria, Austria
  22. 1379–1380 AD Ducal loan of 10,000 pounds exacted from Austrian Jews · Austria
  23. 1382 AD Remission of Vienna citizens' debt interest to Jews · Vienna, Austria
  24. c. 1390 AD Jews leave Feldkirch district under Austrian rule · Feldkirch, Austria
  25. 1396 AD Duke Wilhelm's ordinance on Jewish credit bills · Carinthia, Austria
  26. 1396 AD Restrictions on Jewish trade and landholding in Linz · Linz, Austria
  27. 1397 AD Violent persecution of Jews in Inner Austria (1397) · Carinthia, Austria
  28. c. 1400 AD Hussite-war slaughter of Jews in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia · Austria and elsewhere

15th century

  1. 1403 AD Jew forced to promise not to practise medicine · Vienna, Austria
  2. 1404 AD Burning of Jews of Salzburg and Hallein for host desecration · Salzburg, Austria
  3. 1406 AD Sack of the Jewish quarter of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  4. 1416 AD Heavy tax imposed on the Jews of Wiener Neustadt · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  5. 1418 AD Distinctive hat and bells ordered for Jewish women · Salzburg, Austria
  6. 1418 AD Order for horn-shaped hats and bells for Jews · Salzburg, Austria
  7. 1420 AD Burning of Jews at Enns on host desecration charge · Enns, Austria
  8. c. 1420 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Lower Austria · Lower Austria, Austria
  9. 1420–1421 AD Albrecht V expels Jews from Vienna and Lower Austria · Vienna, Austria
  10. 1420–1421 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Austria · Austria
  11. c. 1420–1429 AD Vienna Gesera · Austria
  12. 1421 AD Destruction of the Vienna synagogue · Vienna, Austria
  13. 1421 AD Expulsion of Jews from Austria · Austria
  14. 1421 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Krems · Krems, Austria
  15. 1421 AD Forced conversion of Jews in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  16. 1421 AD Jewish children placed in monasteries · Austria
  17. 1423 AD Agreement barring Jewish lending in Styria to Albrecht's subjects · Styria, Austria
  18. 1439 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Graz · Graz, Austria
  19. 1442 AD Blood libel in Lienz · Lienz, Austria
  20. 1444 AD Friedrich III's decree restricting Jewish lawsuits and lending · Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria
  21. 1446 AD Special tax on Jews for Princess Katharina's dowry · Carinthia, Austria
  22. 1453 AD Duke Ladislaus renews ban on Jews in Austria · Austria
  23. 1453–1455 AD Ladislaus confirms ban on Jewish residence in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  24. 1460 AD Frederick III grants Estates' request to restrict Jewish settlement · Austria
  25. 1462 AD Blood libel at Rinn (Andreas Oxner) · Rinn, Austria
  26. 1467 AD Emperor permits Judenburg to expel non-tax-paying Jews · Judenburg, Austria
  27. 1469 AD Expulsion of Jews from Austria lifted formally · Austria
  28. 1469 AD Expulsion of Jews from Austria lifted in practice · Austria
  29. 1470 AD Personal tax of 4,000 florins on Jews · Carinthia, Austria
  30. c. 1475 AD Expulsion of Jews from the see of Bamberg after Trent blood libel · Carinthia, Austria
  31. 1475 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Tyrol · Tyrol, Austria
  32. 1478 AD Expulsion of Jews from the Bamberg districts · Villach, Austria
  33. 1478 AD Personal tax of 3,000 florins on Jews · Carinthia, Austria
  34. 1485 AD Matthias Corvinus expels Jews from Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  35. 1487 AD Pig sculpture mocking Jews erected on Salzburg city hall · Salzburg, Austria
  36. 1491 AD Judenbuch ordinance and limits on Jewish interest · Carinthia, Austria
  37. 1496 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Carinthia · Carinthia, Austria
  38. 1496 AD Portugal · Styria, Austria
  39. 1496 AD Synagogue of Wiener Neustadt converted into a church · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  40. 1497 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Wiener Neustadt · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  41. 1498 AD Anti-Jewish sow image displayed in Salzburg town hall · Salzburg, Austria
  42. 1498 AD Expulsion of Jews from the archbishopric and destruction of synagogues · Salzburg, Austria
  43. 1498 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Salzburg district · Salzburg, Austria
  44. c. 1500 AD Ferdinand I expels Jews from Lower Austria and Görz · Lower Austria, Austria and elsewhere

16th century

  1. 1520 AD Expulsion order for Jews of Tyrol (1520) · Tyrol, Austria
  2. 1528 AD Ferdinand imposes registration, badge and residence rules on Jews · Vienna, Austria
  3. 1544 AD Ferdinand I orders expulsion of Jews from Austria · Austria
  4. 1551 AD Yellow badge imposed on Jews in Austria · Austria
  5. 1554 AD Mandate ordering Jews out of Lower Austria · Lower Austria, Austria
  6. 1559 AD Bregenz granted privilege to exclude Jews · Bregenz, Austria
  7. 1559 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Bregenz · Bregenz, Austria
  8. 1569 AD Expulsion order for Jews of Tyrol (1569) · Tyrol, Austria
  9. 1571 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Mattersdorf · Mattersburg (Mattersdorf), Austria
  10. 1572 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Eisenstadt (1572) · Eisenstadt, Austria
  11. c. 1572–1576 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Lower Austria · Lower Austria, Austria
  12. 1575 AD Jews expelled from Vienna and Lower Austria · Lower Austria, Austria
  13. 1600 AD Order to leave Vienna and Austria within fourteen days · Vienna, Austria

17th century

  1. 1623 AD Jews of Vienna confined to the Lower Wörth district · Vienna, Austria
  2. 1624 AD Distinctive sign suspended for the Jews of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  3. 1625 AD Ghetto established in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  4. 1630 AD Calumny against Rabbi Yom Tob Lipmann Heller · Austria
  5. 1630 AD Compulsory conversionist sermons for Jews in Vienna and Prague · Vienna, Austria and elsewhere
  6. 1638 AD Market toll on Jewish visitors in Krems · Krems, Austria
  7. 1638 AD Restrictions on Jewish stores and jurisdiction in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  8. 1641 AD Restoration of Vienna Jews' earlier status · Vienna, Austria
  9. 1668 AD Accusation of arson against Vienna Jews · Vienna, Austria
  10. 1668 AD Riot and looting against the Jews of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  11. 1669–1670 AD Expulsion of Jews from Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  12. 1670 AD Vienna synagogue converted into a church · Vienna, Austria
  13. 1671 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Eisenstadt · Eisenstadt, Austria
  14. 1671 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  15. 1671 AD Leopold I expels the Jews from Hapsburg territory · Hungary and elsewhere
  16. 1671 AD Leopold I revokes the expulsion decree · Hungary and elsewhere
  17. 1673 AD Jews permitted to visit fairs in Lower Austria · Lower Austria, Austria
  18. 1673–1675 AD Limited readmission of Jews to Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  19. 1674 AD Expulsion of Jews from Innsbruck · Innsbruck, Austria
  20. 1676–1688 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Hohenems · Hohenems, Austria
  21. 1683 AD Chmielnicki massacres · Vienna, Austria
  22. 1688 AD Vorarlberg estates' expulsion order against Jews of Sulz · Sulz, Austria
  23. 1693 AD Limited readmission of wealthy Jews to Vienna · Vienna, Austria

18th century

  1. 1704–1707 AD Destruction of Eisenstadt during the Kurucz revolts · Eisenstadt, Austria
  2. c. 1708 AD Jewish refugees forced to leave Wiener Neustadt · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  3. 1711 AD Coronation levy on the Jews of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  4. 1714 AD Expulsion order against court-protected Jews in Innsbruck · Innsbruck, Austria
  5. 1717 AD Forced loan from the Jews of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  6. 1718 AD Expulsion of Jews from Carniola, Styria · Carniola, Slovenia and elsewhere
  7. 1722 AD Aussee synagogue destroyed and members exiled · Bad Aussee, Austria
  8. 1740–1780 AD Restrictive legislation of Maria Theresa · Vienna, Austria
  9. 1744 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Sulz · Sulz, Austria
  10. 1744 AD Vorarlberg estates try to bar return of expelled Jews · Vorarlberg, Austria
  11. 1748 AD Expulsion of Uffenheimer and Landauer from Innsbruck · Innsbruck, Austria
  12. 1748 AD Maria Theresa confirms Innsbruck as a "Jew-free city" · Innsbruck, Austria
  13. 1764 AD Jews' Decree of Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  14. 1769 AD Austrian writ of protection restricts Jews of Hohenems · Hohenems, Austria
  15. 1781 AD Abolition of the Jewish poll-tax · Austria
  16. 1782 AD Edict of Toleration eases restrictions on Jews · Vienna, Austria
  17. 1783 AD Jews permitted to attend Graz trade fairs · Graz, Austria
  18. 1783 AD Jews permitted to attend fairs in Carinthian towns · Carinthia, Austria
  19. 1784 AD Ban on Jews entering the country and peddling (1784) · Styria, Austria
  20. 1787 AD Ban on Jews entering the country and peddling (1787) · Styria, Austria
  21. 1787 AD Compulsory family names and army service for Jews · Austria
  22. 1790 AD Leibzoll repealed · Salzburg, Austria
  23. c. 1790–1792 AD Collectentaxe levied on Jews entering Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  24. 1793 AD Jews barred from farming rural property · Austria
  25. 1795 AD Partial suspension of favorable decrees for itinerant Jews · Salzburg, Austria

19th century

  1. 1802 AD No new Toleranz residence grants for Jews in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  2. 1803–1817 AD Renewed ban on Jews keeping Christian domestics · Austria
  3. 1804 AD Ban on Jewish trade in saltpeter · Austria
  4. 1806–1824 AD Church-based restrictions on Jewish music and Purim balls · Austria
  5. 1809 AD Anti-Jewish excesses at start of Hofer revolt in Innsbruck · Innsbruck, Austria
  6. c. 1809 AD Pillaging of Innsbruck Jewish settlement during Hofer uprising · Innsbruck, Austria
  7. 1810–1856 AD Religion examination required for Jewish marriage · Austria
  8. 1813 AD Bavarian king grants Jews almost full citizenship rights · Salzburg, Austria
  9. 1813 AD Bavarian order to incorporate Jewish community into the township · Hohenems, Austria
  10. 1814 AD Ban on Jewish trade in salt and grain · Austria
  11. 1815 AD Jewish rights restricted after the Congress of Vienna · Innsbruck, Austria
  12. 1816 AD Austrian government revokes some Jewish privileges · Salzburg, Austria
  13. 1816–1827 AD Restriction on Jews acquiring foreclosed real estate · Austria
  14. 1817 AD Francis I renews incorporation order · Hohenems, Austria
  15. 1817 AD Jews with civic rights from Illyria allowed to keep them · Carinthia, Austria
  16. 1817 AD Restrictions on Jews ratified by Tyrolean estates · Tyrol, Austria
  17. 1817–1867 AD Restrictive laws on Jews in Tyrol remain in force · Tyrol, Austria
  18. 1818–1829 AD Jews prohibited from becoming druggists · Austria
  19. 1834 AD Ban on Jews taking Christian saints' names · Austria
  20. 1846 AD Abolition of the Jewish Oath · Austria
  21. 1848 AD Free exercise of religion granted in new constitution · Austria
  22. 1848 AD Individual Jewish families allowed to settle in Graz · Graz, Austria
  23. 1848 AD Special Jewish taxes abolished · Austria
  24. 1848–1860 AD Freedom of residence granted to Jews in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  25. 1848–1889 AD Jews barred from burying their dead in Wiener Neustadt · Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  26. 1849 AD Jews gain equality before the law in Austria · Austria
  27. 1849 AD Social and legal equality granted to Carinthian Jews · Carinthia, Austria
  28. 1851 AD Equal rights constitution repealed · Austria
  29. 1855 AD Ban on dealings with Ludwig Philippson · Austria
  30. 1855 AD Concordat of 1855 bars Jews from teaching and public schools · Austria
  31. 1856 AD Limit on Jewish house-physicians in Vienna hospital · Vienna, Austria
  32. 1856 AD Order to remove Jews from Christian real estate · Austria
  33. 1857 AD Ban on founding Jewish congregations in Lower Austria · Lower Austria, Austria
  34. 1858 AD Restriction on civil appointments of Jewish veterans · Austria
  35. 1859 AD Ban on Christian domestics reinforced; unlicensed marriages voided · Austria
  36. 1859 AD Restrictions on domestics and marriages removed · Austria
  37. 1860 AD 1860 law grants Jews the right to hold property · Austria
  38. 1867 AD Constitution of 1867 abolishes all religious disabilities · Austria
  39. 1867 AD Full equality granted to Jews · Salzburg, Austria
  40. 1867 AD Right to own real estate restored to Carinthian Jews · Carinthia, Austria
  41. 1868 AD Special permit requirement for Jews rescinded · Graz, Austria
  42. 1890 AD Israelitengesetz limits Jewish communities in Austria · Austria
  43. 1890 AD Law assigning Jews of Tyrol and Vorarlberg to Hohenems community · Vorarlberg, Austria

20th century

  1. 1933–1939 AD Nazi persecution drives Jews from Germany and Austria · Germany and elsewhere
  2. 1934 AD Ban on ritual slaughter in Innsbruck · Innsbruck, Austria
  3. 1938 AD Anti-Jewish excesses after annexation of Austria · Austria
  4. 1938 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Austria · Austria
  5. 1938 AD Arrest of Graz Jewish community board · Graz, Austria
  6. 1938 AD Arrest of Viennese Jewish community leaders · Vienna, Austria
  7. 1938 AD Deportation of Salzburg's Jews after the Anschluss · Salzburg, Austria
  8. 1938 AD Desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Graz · Graz, Austria
  9. 1938 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Eisenstadt after the Anschluss · Eisenstadt, Austria
  10. 1938 AD Humiliation of Chief Rabbi Taglicht · Vienna, Austria
  11. 1938 AD Jewish community of Innsbruck ordered disbanded · Innsbruck, Austria
  12. 1938 AD Kristallnacht · Germany and elsewhere
  13. 1938 AD Nazi Aryanization and confiscations after the Anschluss · Innsbruck, Austria
  14. 1938 AD Nazi terror, discriminatory laws and mass arrests in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  15. 1938 AD Pogrom in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  16. 1938 AD Seizure of the Krems synagogue · Krems, Austria
  17. 1938 AD Synagogue of Hohenems severely damaged · Hohenems, Austria
  18. 1938–1939 AD Deportation of Carinthian Jewish men to Dachau · Carinthia, Austria
  19. 1938–1939 AD Nazi closure of prayer room and departure of Jews from Judenburg · Judenburg, Austria
  20. 1938–1941 AD Aryanization and forced emigration of Viennese Jews · Vienna, Austria
  21. 1938–1945 AD Holocaust murder of Eisenstadt Jews · Eisenstadt, Austria
  22. 1939 AD Deportation of Graz Jews to Vienna and the death camps · Graz, Austria
  23. 1939 AD German security police officials deport approximately 3,800 Austrian, Czech… · Vienna, Austria and elsewhere
  24. 1939 AD Nazis begin deporting Austrian and Moravian Jews to Poland · Austria
  25. 1939–1942 AD Deportations of Viennese Jews · Vienna, Austria
  26. 1940 AD Deportation of remaining Jews from Hohenems to Vienna · Hohenems, Austria
  27. 1941 AD Izbica Ghetto · Poland and elsewhere
  28. 1942 AD 13,776 Vienna Jews deported to Theresienstadt · Vienna, Austria
  29. 1942 AD Official dissolution of the Vienna Jewish community · Vienna, Austria
  30. 1945 AD Desecration of Eisenstadt Jewish cemetery · Eisenstadt, Austria
  31. 1945 AD Deutsch Schützen massacre · Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg, Austria
  32. 1945 AD SS functionaries murder 33 members of the Upper Austrian Socialist Party… · Mauthausen, Austria
  33. 1947 AD In Austria, the Verbotsgesetz 1947 provided the legal framework for the process… · Austria
  34. 1960 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Austria · Austria
  35. 1981 AD 1981 Vienna synagogue attack · Vienna, Austria
  36. 1982 AD Destruction of Jewish property in Vienna · Vienna, Austria
  37. 1996 AD The "Mauerbach Auction" of 1996 · Vienna, Austria

21st century

  1. 2023 AD Attack on Jewish section of Vienna Central Cemetery · Vienna, Austria

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