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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Lackenbach in Burgenland, Austria.
Lackenbach Mohel Book (1882 - 1923)
Lackenbach is an Austrian municipality in the District of Oberpullendorf, Burgenland. Its Hungarian name is Lakompak. It is surrounded by meadows and forests and is located at the foothills of the Ödenburg Gebirge mountain range near the Hungarian border. Its area is 18.1 km², Elevation 313 m, Postal code 7322, Area code 02619
Between 1548 and 1552, a fort was built in Lackenbach, with brewery and farm lands. From 1647, Lackenbach, like the rest of Burgenland region, was administratively a part of Hungary as part of German West-Hungary, within the framework of the Habsburg monarchy. Burgenland belonged to Hungary until 1920/21. After the end of the First World War, the territory of German West-Hungary was given to Austria by the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon. Since 1921, the town has belonged to the newly founded State of Burgenland, Austria.
The first Jew in Lackenbach was mentioned in documents from 1552, possibly after the expulsion of Jews from Sopron (Odenburg).
From 1491 the region was under the administration of Lower Austria, the communities of Burgenland were ruled by local lords, who treated them well. In 1670/71 Jews had been expelled from Vienna by Leopold I. Many of them settled in Burgenland, where Prince Paul Esterházy accepted them.
Other Jews came from Bohemia and Moravia. In the north of Burgenland they established Seven Communities on the Esterhazy estates , communities where Jews had their own autonomous administration. These communities were later called: "The seven (Holy) Communities" / "Sheva Hakehilot (Hakdoshot) - (שבע הקהילות (הקדושות " / "Sieben Gemeinden". The seven communities were noted for their outstanding yeshivot and eminent rabbis.
Five communities were in Sopron Megye:
Their language was German; Yiddish was their inner community communication language mainly until the late 1800s; they studied Hebrew from young age; some of the families and some larger merchants spoke Slovak, Czech, Kroat or Hungarian.
The community in Lackenbach had a Synagogue, a Nikveh, a Jewish School, a Cemetery, and well developed and active Jewish community services, eg Khevra Kadisha burial society, and the club 'Zedokoh', whose role was the administration of the synagogue, the appointment of officials, and the care for visiting foreigners.
The community was established at the 16th century, after the banishment of the Jews from Steierland (Styria) and Sopron.
No Jew has returned to Lackenbach after the Holocaust; those who survived immigrated mainly to Israel, USA and England.
The Lackenbach Synagogue Memorial is all that was left from the Lackenbach Jewish Quarter
Historisches Ortslexikon Statistische Dokumentation zur Bevölkerungs- und Siedlungsgeschichte (Historical lexicon Statistical documentation to the population and settlement history).
The Historische Ortslexikon is a statistical documentation of the Austrian population and settlement history and includes information on population figures and houses. It is used to quantitatively support demographic, historical settlement and culturally-informative work, and offers a wide range of data on regional and local history. The main purpose of this documentation is the inclusion of data from the early statistical (late 18th to mid-19th century) and the "pre-statistical" periods in the quantitative description of the population and settlement history, with the classification of older data into time series ranging up to the most recent data.
The data collection is supplemented annually and is available to users by means of the website of the Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) free of charge. Data cited are from the general source "Historisches Ortslexikon (Angabe des Bundeslandes)" [Historical Gazetteer (of the Federal State)], as well as specified sources for particular details.
Information on the population status derives from standard population censuses from 1869 to present, from earlier censuses (ecclesiastical soul censuses, military conscriptions, Census 1857) in the "early statistical" period from 1754 to 1857, and from tax, manorial, ecclesiastical or military sources in the "pre-statistical" period.
The Editor of the Historisches Ortslexikon is Dr. Kurt Klein, before retiring an employee (most recently, Vice President) of the Austrian Statistical Office (now Statistics Austria) and a lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna.
Lakompak (Lakenbach, A[ustria]) An old Jewish community, one of "The seven communities"
(Seve Kehilosz – Sheva kehilot). Documents show that there were Jews living there already in the 16th century (See: M.Pollak - History of the Jews of Sopron), whose numbers were greatly increased by Jews ousted from Styria, Sopron and Vienna.
In 1851, out of a population of 1800, 1200 were Jews. They did commerce with the neighbouring Lower Austria, Styria, as well as Sopron. The most prestigious merchants came from the Hacker family. The community suffered a lot during the Bethlen and Rakoczy fights*.
The Jewish Cemetery The Jewish Cemetery is located in the centre of the town, behind the Church. It is 9,765 m ² large. The oldest gravestone is from 1729. There are 1747 known graves in the cemetery. It was active till March 1938. The cemetery has been cared for by the Vienna community's Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, with the help of The Verein Schalom association. Cemetery_image