Jewish Cemetery Seegasse (Vienna)

The oldest Jewish cemetery was established in 1421 in the Rossau. Most of the graves date from the time of Vienna's second Jewish community (1624-1670). It saved the cemetery from imminent dissolution by redeeming it to the city of Vienna in the name of the brothers Isak and Israel Fränkel for 4,000 gulden. A short time later it passed to the war commissioner and court banker Samuel Oppenheimer, who subsequently had a poorhouse and hospital built. In 1980-82 a home for pensioners of the Vienna municipality was built here according to plans by Requat and Reintaller, and 280 gravestones were reinstalled in the park.