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28th September 1298

first mention of a Jew in St. Pölten

6-9 June 1305

Abraham und Paltram from St. Pölten, first namely known Jews in St. Pölten

1306

persecution of Jews: by the people of St. Pölten after an alleged host desecration

1338

St. Pöltens is mentioned on a list of "Blutorte" (places of blood), affected by the persecution of Jews in Pulkau 

9th September 1338

Municipal Law: Albrecht II., bishop from Passau, acquires St. Pölten a municipal law, containing regulations on Jewish loans; but a jewish life is not verifiable at this time

1420/21

„Wiener Gesera“: Murder or Expulsion from Jews who lived in Vienna and Lower Austria by duke Albrecht V.

Cc. 1600

Resettlement: from Jews in Vienna and Lower Austria; several small Jewish Communities, but not in St. Pölten

1670/71

Second Expulsion from Vienna and Lower Austria

1745

Prohibition of Settlement for the city of St. Pölten

1782

Edict of Tolerance by Josef II.: The prohibition of resettlement in Lower Austria was loosen: Jews were allowed to settle, if the build a factory or have a "nützliches Gewerbe" (useful business)

1788-1848

Residence of wandering traders and Nathan Wiener tries to buy a factory

1848

Bourgeois Revolution: in the wake of the revolution improving the bourgeois rights of the Jews.

16th February 1851

Shil in the Kattunmanufactory von Nathan Wiener (to be Gasser-factory) is accepted by the regional administration

1852

Confirmation of the Status of a community-like organization, employment of a religious teacher

28th April 1857

Application for foundingof a IKG for the territory of the regional administration St. Pölten, Lilienfeld, Melk and Hietzing-surrounding

2nd Mai 1859

Founding of the old Jewish Cemetery in Teufelhoferstraße (todays: Pernerstorferplatz)  

1863

Statutes of the „Israelitischen Religionsgenossenschaft“ in St. Pölten confirmed by the authorities

1885-1890

Conversion of the Gasser factory to the (old) Synagogue at Schulpromenade 22 (today: Dr. Karl Renner-Promenade)

1891

Founding of the IKG St. Pölten: The IKG St. Pölten with approx. 1000 members comprises the districts St. Pölten and Lilienfeld as well as the court districts of Hainfeld, Herzogenburg, Kirchberg a.d. Pielach, Melk, Neulengbach and Purkersdorf (including Hadersdorf-Weidlingau).

1894

Founding of the Chewra Kadisha St. Pölten

1902

Women´s Charity, was registered, which already existed before

1904

Jewish Literature Club was founded by Rabbi Dr. Adolf Aron Schächter

1906

Enclosure of the new Cemetery at Karlstettner-Straße 3

1907

Temple Building Association St. Pölten was established

1912/13

Construction of the new Synagogue at the eastern wall of the old Synagogue

17th August 1913

Inaugurationof the new Synagogue

beginning of the 1920ies

Foundation of Betar St. Pöltenas a union of Zionist with the aim of conveying Jewish immigrants to Zionist ideology and to Jewish children and young people and making them emigrate to Erez Israel ( at that time Palestine)

1921

Sports club Makkabi was founded as answer to the increasing anti-semitism

1921

Zionist Regional Association for Austria St. Pölten constituted

1922

Union of German-Austrian Jews in Vienna chapter St. Pölten founded

1929

Jewish Youth League chapter St. Pölten established

1931

Brith Trumpeldor St. Pölten constituted

1931

Zionist Women´s Association chapter St. Pölten registered

January 1935

Association of Jewish Front Line Soldiers and Women's Group were founded in St. Pölten

1937

New-zionist Organisation Austria Ortsgruppe St. Pölten constituted

12nd March 1938

„Anschluss“: Nazis organized „Reibpartien“.

9th/10th November 1938

Novemberpogrom: the interieur of the Synagogue was destroyed

1940

„judenfrei“: The last Jews had to leave St. Pölten. The IKG was dissolved and integrated into the IKG Vienna.

Since1945

no new community founding

1947/48

Only a few families return home from emigration. Approximately 477 members of the community were murdered in the Shoa.