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From the Jewish Museum Vienna:
Vestiges of the first Jewish community in Vienna can be traced back to the time when Vienna became an important ducal city of the Babenbergs. Mentioned in 1194, Shlom the Mintmaster is the first documented Jew with residence in Vienna. At the beginning of the 13th century, Jewish women and men settled around today’s Judenplatz, where they lived together and in close exchange with the Christian population for around 200 years. The Viennese Jewish community developed into one of the most important in medieval Europe, not least because of the numerous influential rabbis – among them Isaac ben Moses, known as Or Zarua.
The community came to an abrupt end when Duke Albrecht V ordered the robbery, expulsion and murder of Viennese Jewish women and men in 1420/21.Vestiges of the first Jewish community in Vienna can be traced back to the time when Vienna became an important ducal city of the Babenbergs. Mentioned in 1194, Shlom the Mintmaster is the first documented Jew with residence in Vienna. At the beginning of the 13th century, Jewish women and men settled around today’s Judenplatz, where they lived together and in close exchange with the Christian population for around 200 years. The Viennese Jewish community developed into one of the most important in medieval Europe, not least because of the numerous influential rabbis – among them Isaac ben Moses, known as Or Zarua. The community came to an abrupt end when Duke Albrecht V ordered the robbery, expulsion and murder of Viennese Jewish women and men in 1420/21.