Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz

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Mai 2011 © Thomas Kleissl

3, Eduard Wallnöfer Platz / Landhausplatz – Mahnmal / Menorah

In November 1995 the Landtag der Jugend made an application to erect a memorial for the Jews murdered in the Reichskristallnacht and the youth department of Tyrol organised a competition among the Tyrolean higher schools.

A jury, including the president of the Israelite Community, Univ. Prof. Dr. Esther Fritsch and bishop Dr. Reinhold Stecher voted for the project by Mario Jörg, an 18-year-old pupil of the HTL for Mechanical Engineering in Fulpmes. Pupils of this school erected the memorial and in June 1997 it was officially unveiled on the Landhausplatz.

The plinth of the memorial refers to the victims Josef Adler, Wilhelm Bauer, Richard Berger and Richard Graubart. On the circle around the memorial we can read the following text:

… in order not to forget that prejudice, hate and rashness may lead to a cruel spiral of violence … this memorial was erected in 1997.

…in order not to conceal the fact that in the night from 9 to 10 November 1938, Reichskristallnacht- Novemberpogrom, Jewish citizens in Innsbruck were murdered and that many men, women and children had to face the same fate.

November 2012 © Thomas Kleissl

Due to the redesign of the Landhausplatz the memorial was moved slightly in 2011. Additionally, the names of 107 persons who lost their lives in the resistance against the Nazi regime were added to the nearby liberation memorial.

November 2012 © Thomas Kleissl

Since March 2012 there has been an exhaustive homepage about the Eduard Wallnöfer Platz in Innsbruck under erinnern.at.


update 24.10.2018

Literature:

Martin Achrainer < Das Pogrom-Denkmal > in: Gabriele Rath / Andrea Sommerauer / Martha Verdorfer (Hg.), “Bozen Innsbruck – zeitgeschichtliche stadtrundgänge”, Folio Verlag 2000, S 85 – 89

Esther Fritsch / Reinhold Stecher < Dein Herz gedenkt der Schrecken ….. > in: Das Fenster – Tiroler Kulturzeitschrift, Heft 44, 22. Jahrgang, Innsbruck 1988, Aus zwei Ansprachen der Gedenkfeier an die Pogrome gegen Juden in Innsbruck in der “Reichskristallnacht” 1938

Edwin Klien < Mahnmahl Novemberpogrom 1938, Dokumentation zur Entstehung des Mahnmals > Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung, Abteilung JUFF, 1997

Bernhard Natter < Herrschaftsbau und Platz für Denkmäler > in: Gabriele Rath / Andrea Sommerauer / Martha Verdorfer (Hg.), “Bozen Innsbruck – zeitgeschichtliche stadtrundgänge”, Folio Verlag 2000, S. 80 – 84

Wolfgang Pfaundler < Wie es dazu kam: "Schon wieder ein Denkmal > in: Das Fenster – Tiroler Kulturzeitschrift, Heft 64, 31. Jahrgang, Innsbruck 1997

Reinhold Stecher < Es ist ein Denkmal der Jugend > in: Das Fenster – Tiroler Kulturzeitschrift, Heft 64, 31. Jahrgang, Innsbruck 1997

References:

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