Old Synagogue (Koenigsberg)

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The old synagogue was a Hasidic synagogue in Königsberg i. Pr.

The Great Elector had already allowed the Jews to hold church services in the city. In 1753 Frederick the Great gave permission to build a synagogue on Schnürlingsdamm. This was destroyed in the great city fire in 1811 and replaced by a new building in Synagogenstrasse 2 in 1815 (→ city ​​map from 1905 , grid square C5). After the parish was split up by Adass Jisroel , a new building was built in Synagogenstrasse 14-15 in 1893 for the devout members. The so-called Old Synagogue at Synagogenstrasse 2 was reopened in 1897 after renovations and then served the "Eastern Jews" resident in Königsberg to maintain the Eastern Jewish rite in worship. The Reformed Jewish community built the New Synagogue on the Lomse . The old and new synagogues on Synagogenstrasse (from 1933 on Seilerstrasse) were destroyed in the night of the pogroms in 1938 . The building of the synagogue of Adass Yisroel was not set on fire out of consideration for the surrounding buildings, only their furnishings and cult objects were destroyed. After the makeshift restoration of the prayer room, the synagogue was used by the Jewish community. Michael Wieck celebrated his bar mitzvah there in 1941. The building was destroyed in the air raids in August 1944.

See also

literature

  • Joseph Levin Saalschütz : On the history of the synagogue community in Königsberg. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Jg. 6, H. 5, 1857, ZDB -ID 208351-6 , pp. 437-449; Jg. 6, H. 12, 1857, pp. 437-449; Jg. 7, H. 5, 1858, pp 163-178; Jg. 7, H. 6, 1858, pp. 203-217; Vol. 7, H. 11, 1858, pp. 397-407; Jg. 8, H. 3, 1858, pp 81-100; Vol. 11, H. 6, 1862, pp. 209-222, online .
  • Andrea Ajzensztejn: The Jewish community in Königsberg. From branch offices to legal equality (= Hamburg Contributions to the History of Eastern Europe 10). Kovac, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8300-1350-7 (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2003).
  • Max Fürst : Gefilte fish. A youth in Königsberg (= Prussia series of publications. Plant 17). Verlag der Nation, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-373-00512-4 .
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic. Hanser, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Michael Wieck : Testimony to the fall of Königsberg. A prominent Jew reports . Becksche series, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-51115-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: The Jewish minority in Königsberg, Prussia: 1871 - 1945 . In: Series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . tape 56 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996 ( online [accessed September 16, 2019]).

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 '  N , 20 ° 31'  E