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AUSTRIA JEWISH & HERITAGE

(Vienna - Hainburg - Kittsee - Eisenstadt - Graz-St. Pölten - Korneuburg - Vienna)

DAY 1 VIENNA Resistance during World War II. the protection of the Esterhazy family.
Arrival in Vienna and meeting with the We will end the visit with a panoramic Still today you can visit the old Jewish
guide. Transfer to the hotel and check in. bus tour around the Ringstrasse, cemetery, dating from the 18th century,
In the evening, we will enjoy a welcome Vienna’s main boulevard, passing by St. where about 230 graves remain, and the
dinner at a local Jewish restaurant, such Charles Church, the State Opera, the synagogue from the 17th century.
as “Alef Alef” or “Bahur Tov”, where we Hofburg, the twin museums of Fine Arts Our next stop will be Eisenstadt,
can discover the secrets of this cuisine. and History of Natural Sciences, the capital of the province of Burgenland.
Parliament and the Town Hall and the Accommodation.
DAY 2 JEWISH VIENNA Votive Church until we reach the Museum
On today’s tour we will discover the past, of Sigmund Freud, Jewish psychoanalyst DAY 4 EISENSTADT – 7 MUNICIPALITIES
present and future of the established who went into exile in London due to the TOUR – EISENSTADT
Jewish community in Vienna. Our walking spread of anti-Semitism in Austria. Visit of We start the day with a visit to the city of
tour starts in the historic center to visit the museum. Free afternoon. Eisenstadt, stronghold of the Esterhazy
the “Stadttempel” Synagogue, opened in family, one of the richest aristocratic
1826. At the time of its construction, only DAY 3 VIENNA – HAINBURG an der families in Central Europe in past
Catholic churches could be seen from the DONAU – KITTSEE – EISENSTADT centuries, patrons of artists and protectors
street, so this synagogue was included in We leave towards the east of Austria of the Jewish community. We will visit the
a residential building, thus saving it from until we reach the town of Hainburg an Austrian Jewish Museum, founded in
the burning of synagogues in November der Donau, on the banks of the Danube 1972 as the first Jewish museum in
1938. River. In a guided walking tour we will see Austria after World War II. It is located
Then we will go to the Judenplatz (Jewish this medieval town, which still retains its in the 18th century Wertheimer House,
Square), where we will see the monument walls and the medieval synagogue of the whose head of the family was the chief
to the Concentration Camps and the fourteenth century. rabbi of Hungary.
Jewish Museum, which explains Judaism We continue our tour to Kittsee, one Inside was also built a private synagogue,
in Vienna since the Middle Ages, until of the 7 municipalities of the province a part of which can be seen integrated
we reach the Old Town Hall, where we of Burgenland in which from 1670 the into the museum. We will also visit the Old
can see an exhibition on the Austrian Jewish communities could settle under and New Jewish Cemetery and finish the
visit with a walk through the historic center
to see other monuments such as the
Esterhazy Palace, St. Martin’s Cathedral,
the Martin’s Manor House or the Plague
Danube’s Korneuburg Column, among others.
Valley Then we will visit the other municipalities
Mauthausen Vienna in which Jewish communities could
Saint Pölten Hainbur an be established from 1670 onwards,
Baden der Donau such as Frauenkirchen, Deutschkreutz
Kittsee and Lackenbach, in which only the
Eisenstadt cemeteries have been preserved until
AUSTRIA today; Kobersdorf, where we will visit the
old synagogue and the castle from 1528,
bought by the Esterhazy family in 1704;
and finally, Mattersburg, in which only the
Graz cemetery has been preserved.
Return to Eisenstadt and rest of the day
at leisure. DAY 5 EISENSTADT – GRAZ

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