Ózsinagóga
In Ózsinagóga once stood—today, you’re marking a memory of a place that later disappeared into redevelopment, but whose traces were brought back to light. Sopron’s first written references to its Jewish community date to the 13th century, when 10–16 families lived on Zsidó utca (“Jewish Street”) and were largely tied to trades like commerce and finance. Around 1300, they built a rare early-Gothic synagogue for Central Europe, set back into an inner courtyard because the rules of the time didn’t allow it to stand directly on the street line; in that courtyard, court-like decisions and business deals happened with Christians. A sharp turn came in 1440, when Luxembourg’s Queen Elizabeth, a widow, created Sopron’s first ghetto and the street was renamed Új utca—a name that endures. In 1526, the city expelled the Jewish residents after accusing them of collaborating with the Turks. …
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