Old Synagogue (Cottbus)

Old Synagogue of Cottbus

The Old Synagogue was a synagogue in Cottbus at today's Karl-Liebknecht-Straße  132.

The Jewish sacred building was built for 300 worshipers and inaugurated on September 16, 1902. The synagogue fell victim to the November pogroms in 1938 and its ruins were later torn down. A department store was built on the former synagogue site in the 1960s. In 1999, a memorial plaque designed by the Cottbus graphic artist Dieter Nemitz was placed on the west side of the department store, which contains a quote from the former regional rabbi Martin Riesenburger :

"Who promotes peace, who creates peace, who fights for it and loves it, will bring new happiness and peace into the world."

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  Exterior view

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  inside view

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945

literature

• Irene Diekmann , Julius H. Schoeps : Guide through the Jewish Brandenburg. Berlin 1995.

Web links

• Jewish places in Cottbus on the website of the Jewish community Cottbus
• Jewish history in Cottbus at www.mybrandenburg.net

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 26.7 "  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 43"  E