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Obere Donaustra?e
5, Vienna, 2nd district
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"The Jews migrating
to Vienna from the east settle in the Leopoldstadt, the second of
the twenty districts. There they are near the Prater and the north
train terminal [?] The Leopoldstadt is of its own free will a ghetto."
(Joseph Roth) After their marriage on 17 March 1872 Arnold Sch?nberg?s
parents ? natives of Bratislava and Prague, respectively ? moved to
the Leopoldstadt, Jewish by tradition. The 2nd Viennese borough between
the Danube and the Danube canal, in which virtually half of the Jewish
population of Vienna lived, was popularly known as "Matzos Island."
The heterogenous "Israelite Community" consisted of orthodox, emancipated,
assimilated Jews who were
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eastern European "Shtetl" culture and who had migrated from Bohemia,
Moravia, Hungary and Galicia to the metropolis of the Habsburg monarchy.
On 13 September 1874 Arnold Sch?nberg was born in the house at Obere
Donaustra?e 5 (prior to the incorporation of the Viennese suburbs:
Brigittenau 393), which had been built in 1871 by the architect and
municipal building contractor Heinrich Ritter von F?rster. After the
family?s move to the Theresiengasse 5 (formerly Leopoldstadt 894),
Sch?nberg?s sister Ottilie was born (9 June 1876).
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