Old Synagogue (Elmshorn)

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Foundation walls of the destroyed synagogue in Elmshorn (1938)

The synagogue in Elmshorn , a town in the Pinneberg district in Schleswig-Holstein , was built in 1845. The synagogue was on Flamweg. The inauguration took place on January 21, 1846 by the chief rabbi from Altona Jakob Ettlinger .

time of the nationalsocialism

The synagogue was set on fire during the November pogrom in 1938 . The ruin stood until after 1945, it was used as an air raid shelter during the war . After the end of the war the synagogue building was demolished.

Commemoration

A memorial stone in memory of the synagogue is located on the corner of Neue Straße and Flamweg. On November 9, 2010, the newly designed Synagogue Square was inaugurated.

  • Overview of the memorial

  • Memorial stone

  • Corten steel stele

  • Corten steel stele

New synagogue

Since October 2012 there is a new synagogue at Flamweg 4–6 in Elmshorn.

literature

  • Harald Kirschninck: The history of the Jews in Elmshorn. 1685-1918. Volume 1, 2nd expanded edition, Norderstedt 2017. (not evaluated)
  • Harald Kirschninck: The history of the Jews in Elmshorn. 1918-1945. Volume 2, 2nd expanded edition, Norderstedt 2017. (not evaluated)
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Beth ha Chajim. House of Eternal Life. A visit to the Jewish cemetery in Elmshorn. Norderstedt 2019.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: The train of no return. - Deportation of Jewish citizens from Elmshorn. Norderstedt 2017.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Jews in Elmshorn, Part 1: Discrimination. Persecution. Destruction, Elmshorn 1996. (Contributions to the history of Elmshorn, Volume 9).
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Jews in Elmshorn, Part 2: Isolation. Assimilation. Emancipation. Elmshorn 1999. (Contributions to the history of Elmshorn, Volume 12).
  • Kirschninck, Harald: What can the graves tell us? Biographies and stories behind the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery in Elmshorn. Volume 1. Norderstedt 2019.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: What can the graves tell us? Biographies and stories behind the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery in Elmshorn. Volume 2. Norderstedt 2019.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: What can the graves tell us? Biographies and stories behind the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery in Elmshorn. Volume 3. Norderstedt 2019.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: On the history of the Jewish community Elmshorn until 1869. in: Stadt Elmshorn (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history of Elmshorn. Volume 1. Elmshorn 1987.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: On the history of the Jewish community in Elmshorn. Part II. From emancipation to destruction. in: Stadt Elmshorn (Ed.): Contributions to the history of Elmshorn. Volume 2. Elmshorn 1988.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Beth ha Chajim - On the history of the Jewish cemetery in Elmshorn. in: Stadt Elmshorn (Ed.): Contributions to the history of Elmshorn. Volume 3. Elmshorn 1989
  • Kirschninck, Harald: "Anyone who buys from a Jew is a traitor!". The fall of the Jewish community in Elmshorn. In: Gerhard Paul / Miriam Carlesbach (eds.): Menorah and swastika. On the history of the Jews in and from Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck and Altona 1918-1998. Neumünster 1998. pp. 283-296.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: The Jews in Elmshorn during the Third Reich. in: Bringmann / Diercks: Freedom lives. Antifascist resistance and Nazi terror in Elmshorn and the surrounding area 1933 - 1945. 702 years imprisonment for antifascists. Frankfurt 1983.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: The Jews in Elmshorn during the Third Reich. in: Heimatverband für die Kreis Pinneberg eV (Hrsg.): Yearbook for the district Pinneberg 1984. Pinneberg 1983.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: The Jewish community Elmshorn. in: Lorenzen-Schmidt (Ed.): Bei uns .... 1933 - 1945. A brochure for the exhibition of the same name. Engelbrecht Wilderness 1983.
  • Schleswig-Holsteinischer Heimatbund (Ed.): Kirschninck, Harald: Beth ha Chajim - The house of eternal life. The history of the Jewish cemetery in Elmshorn. In: Schleswig-Holstein. Culture. History. Nature. Special print for Schleswig-Holstein Day 1998. Husum 1998. P. 68 f.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Branch in Itzehoe. In: Ritter / Fischer (Hrsg.): Jüdische Kultur. Steinburger Jahrbuch 2002. Volume 46 Itzehoe 2001. pp. 114-130.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Elmshorn. On the history of the cemetery. In: www.alemannia-judaica.de/schleswig_holstein_friedhoefe.htm
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Where did you go? Where Elmshorn Jews were deported by the National Socialists. In: Working group “Stumbling blocks for Elmshorn”. Elmshorn 2008.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Albert Hirsch. In: Working group “Stumbling blocks for Elmshorn”. Elmshorn 2008.
  • Kirschninck, Harald: Karl Löwenstein. John Lowenstein. Selma Levi, b. Lion's Arch. In: Working group “Stumbling blocks for Elmshorn”. Elmshorn 2008.
  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 . ( Online edition )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The city of Elmshorn has a synagogue again
  2. ^ New synagogue for Elmshorn's Jews

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 18.3 "  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 53.7"  E