Taborstraße 48, Vienna, 2nd district

  From 1880 – in that year’s census the Schönberg’s were registered at the address Taborstraße 48 – Arnold Schönberg attended the grade school at Kleine Pfarrgasse 33, and from 1885 the I. & R. secondary school at Vereinsgasse. On 29 April 1882 Schönberg’s brother Heinrich was born. The blossoming economical liberalism that placed no working or housing restrictions upon Jewish citizens brought with it in the second half of the 19th century new perspectives for small businesses in Vienna.
In the "Trade and Advertising Registry" Schönberg’s father Samuel was initially listed as a "Maker of Shoe Products;" from 1886 he ran a commission and bill-collecting agency at Kleine Pfarrgasse 31. After the death of his father in 1889 Schönberg worked as an underling at the private bank of Werner & Co. For a while he continued to live at Taborstraße 32 with his mother. In the following years the family frequently sought new quarters, moving in 1892 to Große Stadtgutstraße 10 and in 1893 to Theresiengasse 5 (the following year renamed Adambergergasse).

 

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