Obj. ID: 54546
Memorials Memorial at the site of the Old Jewish cemetery in St. Pölten, Austria, 1968
To the main object: Old Jewish Cemetery in St. Pölten, Austria
Name of the Monument
No official name
Who/What is Commemorated?
Old Jewish Cemetery in Sankt Pölten
Description
The monument is an upright granite slab installed at the site, where the Jewish cemetery was once located.
Inscription
In German:
AN DIESER STELLE
BEFAND SICH DER ALTE
JÜDISCHE FRIEDHOF
DER STADT ST. PÖLTEN
ISRAELITISCHE KULTUSGEMEINDE WIEN
Translation: On this site was the Old Jewish cemetery of St. Pölten // Jewish Community of Vienna
Commissioned by
The Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien)
Original file: AleXXw / Alexander Wagner, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT , via Wikimedia Commons
sub-set tree: 
The cemetery was established in 1859 and closed in 1906. After the annexation of Austria into the German Reich in March 1938 (Anschluss), the cemetery was destroyed. No tombstones are preserved. The monument was built at the site in 1968.
"Alter Friedhof," Memorbuch
Juden in St. Pölten, http://www.juden-in-st-poelten.at/de/synagogen-friedhoefe/alter-friedhof (accessed June 30, 2024)
"Alter und Neuer Jüdischer Friedhof Sankt Pölten,"
Wikipedia, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_und_Neuer_Jüdischer_Friedhof_Sankt_Pölten.