University of Vienna
Reform und Tradition - Der Wiener Stadttempel im Kontext des aschkenasischen Synagogenbaus des Klassizismus
The dissertation is aiming at a first monograph on the so called City Temple that was accomplished in 1826 by the design of Joseph Kornhäusel and came along with a liturgical reform. Central questions of the dissertation concern: - The genesis as well as the lawful and social status of the third Jewish community in Vienna until the foundation of the City Temple; - the foundation and building history of the City Temple under evaluation of the archival material; - a first comprehensive analysis of the architectural plannings including the four unrealised projects by Kornhäusel; - the contextualisation of the preparatory projects and the executed building; taken under consideration are at this — besides the Oeuvre of the architect, the local architectural history and contemporary profane and sacral buildings — especially the ashkenazic synagogue architecture of neoclassicism.