Edith-Stein-Weg Innsbruck

Edith Stein entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne as Sister Theresia Benedicta vom Kreuz in 1933. She was deported to Auschwitz on 7 August 1942 due to her Jewish heritage and murdered there. Pope John Paul II. declared her a saint on 11 October 1998. On 29 May 1980, the Innsbruck city council decided, on the initiative of Hermann Weiskopf (Innsbruck Middle Class) and city councillor Wilhelm Steidl (Tyrolean Labour Union), to rename a traffic area in Hochrum after Edith Stein, but this was prevented by neighbouring residents' protests. Therefore, the city council decided on 13 November 1980 to name a new residential street near the Carmelite convent in Wilten as Edith-Stein-Weg. The official handover of the path, followed by a subsequent ecumenical service, took place on 12 October 1982.