Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz (Landhausplatz) is the largest public square in the centre of the city of Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria. Eduard-Wallnöfer-Square has become one of the most interesting example for modern architecture in the capital of Tyrol.
Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz und Tiroler Landesregierung in Innsbruck
In November 1995 the Landtag der Jugend made an application to erect a memorial for the Jews murdered in the Reichskristallnacht - Novemberpogrom and the youth department of Tyrol organised a competition among the Tyrolean higher schools. Won 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 in June 1997. The plinth of the memorial refers to the victims Josef Adler, Wilhelm Bauer, Richard Berger and Richard Graubart.
Memorial / Menorah in Innsbruck
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.
Pogromdenkmal dscription in Innsbruck
"…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".
Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz und Tiroler Landesregierung in Innsbruck
In November 1995 the Landtag der Jugend made an application to erect a memorial for the Jews murdered in the Reichskristallnacht - Novemberpogrom and the youth department of Tyrol organised a competition among the Tyrolean higher schools. Won 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 in June 1997. The plinth of the memorial refers to the victims Josef Adler, Wilhelm Bauer, Richard Berger and Richard Graubart.
Memorial / Menorah in Innsbruck
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.
Pogromdenkmal dscription in Innsbruck
"…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".
Innsbruck: Liberation Memorial - Pro Libertate Austriae Mortvis
Eduard Wallnöfer (1913-1989 in Innsbruck) was in the period 1963 - 1987 the governor of Tyrol /Germ: Landeshauptmann/.
