Memorial at the Site of the Jewish Synagogue

In 1905, Jews from Carinthia purchased the house at Platzgasse 3 and converted it into a Jewish house of worship, a synagogue. A Hebrew inscription was placed on the exterior façade: „Bet ha-Knesset“, translated as „House of Assembly“. During the November Pogroms in 1938, the synagogue was destroyed. After the liberation from National Socialism, there were no more Jews or Jewish women in Carinthia who reactivated it. The building was temporarily used as a residence and later as an automobile workshop, until it was finally demolished. In 1987, a group of people formed with the intention of making a statement about the annihilation of the Jewish community in Klagenfurt. After prolonged hesitation, the city supported the project and unveiled a memorial stone on the 50th anniversary of the November Pogroms in 1988 at the site of the Jewish house of worship. In 2015, during an expansion of the memorial, two stelae with photographs and information were added to the left and right of the stone, and to improve visibility, a plaza in front of the memorial was created with David stars embedded in the ground.