Synagogue (Bad Segeberg)

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The Synagogue Mischkan HaZafon ("Stiftszelt des Nordens") on Jean-Labowsky-Weg in Bad Segeberg has existed since 2007. It is the second synagogue of the Jewish community of Bad Segeberg, which perished during the Nazi era, and its legal successor, the Jewish community founded in 2002 .

history

The first Jews settled in Bad Segeberg in the first half of the 18th century. From the middle of the 18th century they used a private prayer room and in 1792 they set up a cemetery . By 1820 there were already 70 Jews living in the city. They made up seven percent of the population. The prayer room soon became too small, so the congregation set up a synagogue in a converted private house on Lübecker Strasse. It was equipped with a prayer room for 40 men and 20 women. There was also a teacher's apartment and a classroom in the building. The community belonged to the rabbinate in Hamburg-Wandsbek.

In 1932 the community gave some of the cult objects to the Lübeck Museum of Ethnology as a permanent loan. So they survived the time of National Socialism. NSDAP members looted and devastated the synagogue during the Reichspogromnacht . Only the adjoining houses in the densely built-up Kirchstrasse prevented the National Socialists from burning the building down. 27 members of the small Jewish community were murdered during the Holocaust . After that, and even after the end of the war, there was hardly any Jewish life in the region until around 1990. The building was used for other purposes and was used after 1945 to accommodate refugees and displaced persons. In 1962 the now dilapidated building was demolished. A memorial plaque was placed on the property in 1988 to mark the 50th anniversary of the pogrom night.

With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the subsequent immigration of Eastern European Jews to Germany, Jewish life in Bad Segeberg strengthened again. In February 2002 the church was reorganized with 28 adults and 13 children. The New Jewish Cemetery was set up in the year the community was founded with financial support from the Jewish Culture and Promotion Association of the City of Bad Segeberg and the State of Schleswig-Holstein. First they met in the rooms of the Reconciliation Church. Then the community rented a former discotheque. In 2005, she bought the former Lohmühle and a 3500-square-meter property from the city's magistrate at a symbolic price of one euro per square meter. Then began the conversion of the property into a community center. In addition to the synagogue, there is also a library, an interdenominational kindergarten and a youth center. There is also a kosher kitchen and a mikveh , which is currently the only one in Schleswig-Holstein. The synagogue itself has a women's gallery. The construction costs amounted to 1.6 million euros. They were financed by the community members' own resources and contributions, a grant from the state of Schleswig-Holstein amounting to 250,000 euros, 35,000 euros from the Holstein-Herz foundation and 14,000 euros from the bingo lottery. A metal manufacturer donated the Star of David , a London couple the eternal light and a pastor from Bad Segeberg provided the community with former school desks, which now serve as community benches. On Sunday, June 24, 2004, the congregation inaugurated the new center in the presence of the then Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, Peter Harry Carstensen, and the Secretary General of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Stephan Kramer . For the inauguration, Hans Wißkirchen, director of the Lübeck museums, presented the community with the 400-year-old Torah scroll from the possession of its predecessor community, which remained in 1932 after an exhibition in the Lübeck Ethnographic Museum.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The synagogue in Bad Segeberg (Schleswig-Holstein). Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the pogrom night. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Torsten Mussdorf, Manfred Neumann,: Jewish life in Segeberg from the 18th to the 20th century: collected essays from two decades with over 100 photos and documents . F. Gleiss, Bad Segeberg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3215-1 , p. 222 .
  4. ↑ Gabriela Fenyes: construction Nord. May 30, 2007, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ FRIEDERIKE GRÄFF: The kippot were still at customs . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 23, 2007, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 25 ( taz.de [accessed on February 19, 2020]).

Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 38.7 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 16 ″  E