Jewish Cemetery in Währing (from 8 pm)
The exhibition on the Jewish Cemetery in Währing offers a multifaceted approach to the cemetery with artefacts from the site and informative panels on its eventful history. A small part of the Biedermeier-style gem with its own Jewish character can also be visited.
In the room where the ritual preparation of the body for burial (tahara in Hebrew) and the farewell ceremonies took place, the new permanent exhibition offers a historical, religious, cultural-historical, and also emotional approach to the cemetery. Objects from the cemetery grounds and artistically designed panels, some with newly discovered images and documents, convey the repeated expansion of the cemetery, its desecration and neglect, and the preservation efforts. The cemetery is a reflection of its community and a Viennese cultural site: a gem of the Biedermeier period, a place of remembrance for important people, but also the final resting place of almost 30,000 ‘ordinary people’.
TOUR IN THE DARK
A short path in the oldest section of the cemetery, which has already been renovated, will be signposted and illuminated for visitors.