In 2021, a debate raged (in media statements and during an evening town hall discussion) that has persisted to this day and that has only been suspended in an authoritarian manner. The debate was over how to deal with the Viennese mayor Karl Lueger, the founder of the Christian Democratic Party and one of the inventors and chief protagonists of an institutionalized, political antisemitism. Part of the debate concerned (and still concerns) what to do with Lueger’s monument, mainly with its high, enthroned bronze statue on the square in central Vienna that bears his name. Some were in favor of removing the Lueger statue from the square and renaming the square in a public process as part of a positioning against antisemitism. Other voices, such as those representing politics and historical science, spoke against removing the statue and for contextualization, as a part of which it would remain on the square.