Auspitz von Artenegg family grave
(Döbling I/1/16)  

The existing porges.net JonasSimonPorges.html page documents that several members of the Auspitz von Artenegg family — the descendants of Mathilde Porges (1838-1910), daughter of Simon Porges (1798-1870), and her husband Karl (Charles) Auspitz von Artenegg (1824-1912) — are buried « in the same grave at Vienna's Doebling cemetery on the former Israelitic section, group 1 tomb 16 (I/1/16) » (source : Christoph Libisch, 2002). This page consolidates everything we know about that family vault and identifies the verification path with the IKG-Wien and Döbling cemetery records.

I — The grave coordinates and the « former Israelitic section »

The grave is at the Döblinger Friedhof (the municipal Döbling cemetery, Vienna's 19th district), specifically at coordinates I / 1 / 16 — « Israelitisch, Gruppe 1, Grab 16 ». The Döbling cemetery has, since the late 19th century, contained both Jewish-section (« Israelitische Abteilung ») and Christian-section areas. The former Israelite section of the Döblinger Friedhof was an early-to-mid 19th-century arrangement that served the Vienna Jewish community in the era before the Vienna Zentralfriedhof Israelite section opened (1879).

Crucially, the Döblinger Friedhof Israelite section is NOT the same as the Vienna IKG-Wien Zentralfriedhof Israelite sections (Tor I and Tor IV). The Döbling Israelite burials are in a separate register, maintained by the Döbling municipal cemetery administration and (historically) cross-referenced with the Vienna IKG community records. The 100-record IKG-Wien register that we have integrated elsewhere does NOT include the Döbling Israelite section.

Key consequence : the Auspitz Döbling I/1/16 grave family is therefore systematically absent from the Vienna IKG-Wien register on our companion page PorgesVienneZentralfriedhof.html. This absence is a documentation artefact, not evidence of Christian conversion or non-Jewish status.

II — The documented occupants of grave I/1/16

The existing JonasSimonPorges.html page identifies the family members buried in the I/1/16 grave by an underline marker (« underlined persons are buried in the same grave »). Synthesising the page text :

Döblinger Friedhof — former Israelite section — Group 1, Grave 16 — the Auspitz von Artenegg family vault

Mathilde Porges (b. Vienna 01/02/1838, d. Vienna 13/12/1910, age 72) — daughter of Simon Porges × Rosalie Wertheimer ; the matriarch of the Auspitz line
(N° 755 on the Vienna IKG birth register)
Karl (Charles) Auspitz von Artenegg (b. Vienna 04/11/1824, d. Gastein Austria 18/08/1912, age 87) — Mathilde's husband, ennobled as « Edler von Artenegg »
Anna Auspitz von Artenegg (b. Hietzing-Vienna 17/12/1863) — their daughter, married twice : (1) 07/10/1894 Adolf Freiherr von Odelga (d. 16/04/1915), (2) 15/03/1920 Franz Freiherr von Riedenau (d. 14/05/1943)
Theodor Auspitz Edler von Artenegg (b. Vienna 23/03/1861, d. 1939) — their son, married Vienna 28/05/1901 Angela « Ella » Leitner (b. Graz 17/03/1873, d. 1945)
Felicie Auspitz Edle von Artenegg (b. 1902, d. 1993) — Theodor's daughter, married a von Baratta-Dragono. The post-war survivor of the family, dying at 90 in 1993.
Elisabeth Auspitz von Artenegg (b. 1907, d. 1982) — Theodor's daughter
Lillian Auspitz von Artenegg (b. 1904, d. 1978) — NOT underlined on the existing page (presumably NOT buried in I/1/16) ; Theodor's middle daughter.
Stefan Auspitz von Artenegg (d. Theresienstadt 1945) — Mathilde's son. Holocaust victim — presumably NOT buried at the Döbling family grave (perished at Theresienstadt). The existing page lists him with no underline, consistent with non-Döbling burial.

Summary : the I/1/16 family vault contains at least 6 members of the Auspitz von Artenegg family spanning four generations, from Mathilde Porges (1838-1910) the founder, through to Felicie (1902-1993) the youngest underlined occupant. The vault was used continuously from 1910 (Mathilde's death) to 1993 (Felicie's death), an 83-year span.

III — Cross-reference with the IKG-Wien Zentralfriedhof register

None of the named Auspitz von Artenegg family members appear in the IKG-Wien Zentralfriedhof register (the 100-record cemetery dataset analysed on our companion page). This is consistent with their being buried at the Döblinger Friedhof, a separate cemetery with its own administration.

The pattern is consistent with several other Vienna Bohemian Porges descendants who were buried at municipal Vienna cemeteries (Döbling, Oberdöbling, Christian Zentralfriedhof sections) rather than the IKG Zentralfriedhof Israelite sections. Some of these were Christian converts ; others, like the Auspitz von Artenegg family, were buried as Jews at a municipal cemetery's Israelite section — a distinct documentary status from both the IKG cemeteries and the Christian municipal sections.

IV — The four-cemetery Vienna Porges burial pattern

The Vienna Bohemian Porges burial pattern across the late-imperial and inter-war periods now resolves into four distinct cemetery types :

Cemetery type Religious status Documented Vienna Porges examples
Zentralfriedhof Israelite (Tor I + Tor IV) Jewish (IKG-Wien community) The 100-record IKG-Wien register : Edmund 1917, Philipp 1925, Dr. Max 1896, Kommerzialrat Josef 1926, Gisa Berger 1922, etc.
Währinger Friedhof Jewish (older community, closed 1879) First-generation Vienna Porges 1840-1872 : Anna née Reitlinger 1840, Edouard 1855, Lazar 1855, Ephraim 1866, Friedrich + Emma 1872
Döblinger Friedhof, former Israelite section Jewish (municipal cemetery section) The Auspitz von Artenegg I/1/16 family vault — Mathilde Porges 1910 + her descendants 1910-1993. Likely also Charlotte Friedmann née Porges 1890 (israel. Abtheilung) for her husband Sigmund Friedmann.
Döblinger / Oberdöblinger / Zentralfriedhof Christian sections Christian convert Anna Porges 1894 Oberdöbling, Frédérique Schiff 1904 Döblinger Familiengruft, Sigmund Porges 1918 Döblinger, Emma Wodianer 1918 Catholic, Dr. Robert C. Porges 1928 Döblinger Catholic, Dolly Bunzl née Porges 1932 Döblinger

The Auspitz von Artenegg I/1/16 case demonstrates that not all Vienna municipal-cemetery burials are Christian conversions. The Döblinger Friedhof's former Israelite section was an active Jewish-community burial option throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, used by families who maintained Jewish religious identity but preferred the geographically closer / more prestigious / more discreet Döbling cemetery to the larger and more public Zentralfriedhof Israelite sections.

V — Verification path

To independently verify the Döbling I/1/16 grave's contents :

  1. Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (Vienna City Archives) — the Döblinger Friedhof administrative records of 1910-1993 should contain the original I/1/16 grave-occupancy register.
  2. Christoph Libisch (2002), source cited on the existing page — the original publication that documented the grave should be consulted directly to verify the underlined-name list.
  3. The Döblinger Friedhof on-site visit — the grave inscription itself (if preserved) would list all named occupants chronologically. The Döbling cemetery is partly preserved and partly accessible to genealogical visitors.
  4. The Auspitz family genealogy at loebtree.com (already linked on the existing page) may have additional burial-location data.
  5. The Vienna IKG burial register cross-search for « Auspitz » (none of the family is in the Zentralfriedhof Israelite register, confirming the Döbling-only burial pattern).

VI — Implications for the broader Bohemian Porges burial pattern

The systematic recognition of the four-cemetery pattern (IKG Zentralfriedhof Tor I/IV + Währing + Döbling Israelite + Döbling Christian) should inform all future cemetery-based research on the Bohemian Porges family network in Vienna :

  • Absence from the IKG Zentralfriedhof register does NOT imply Christian conversion — the family may have used the Döblinger Israelite section (as Auspitz von Artenegg did).
  • Burial at Döblinger Friedhof without Israelite-section designation in the obituary is suggestive but not definitive of Christian conversion — the obituary may have omitted the section qualifier as a stylistic choice. Verification requires the Döbling cemetery records themselves.
  • Multi-occupant family vaults (Familiengrüfte) at the Döblinger Friedhof were a status marker of the wealthy Vienna haute bourgeoisie, both Jewish and Christian-convert. The Schiff family vault (where Frédérique 1904 was buried) and the Auspitz I/1/16 vault are two documented examples of the same architectural-burial type, used by two different sub-clans of the Jonas Simon Porges descending lines.

For the broader Vienna IKG cemetery analysis, see the companion pages PorgesVienneZentralfriedhof.html (the full searchable register) and PorgesViennaIKG-Overview.html (the family-plot analytical commentary).

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