Old Synagogue (Eppingen)
The old synagogue at Küfergasse 2 in Eppingen in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg is a former synagogue building with a ritual bath belonging to the Jewish community of Eppingen . The building was erected in 1772 and used as a synagogue until 1873. It later came into non-Jewish private ownership and survived the devastation of Jewish facilities under National Socialism undamaged. The ritual bath in the basement is set up as a memorial.
history
After the school or prayer room of the Eppinger Jews had previously been in the Old University or in the Judenschule , Metzgergasse 1 , a new building was built at Küfergasse 2 in 1772 by the community of around 45 people at the time. A mikveh (ritual bath) of the Jewish community from the 16th century could have been located at this point . The new building, which took place in 1772, retained the bathroom in the basement, which was excavated down to the groundwater level at a depth of around 4 meters and was illuminated by a light shaft extending to the roof. On the facade of the synagogue there is a historic wedding stone with a size of 110 × 74 centimeters and the Hebrew inscription: voice of joy and voice of jubilation, the voice of the bride and the voice of the groom ( Jeremiah 7:34).
The synagogue was used for church services for around 100 years , until the congregation built a new, larger and representative synagogue on Kaiserstrasse , which was inaugurated in 1873. The Old Synagogue came into the possession of the Jewish Ettlinger family in 1885, who converted the building into a residential building. In 1895 the shoemaker Baumann acquired the property and had a workshop built into the building. Towards the end of the 19th century, the bath shaft of the mikveh was also filled in so that the room could be used as a cellar.
The building escaped the anti-Jewish riots during the Nazi era because the bathroom in the basement had already been filled in and the then owner Renz had covered the large wedding stone in the facade with a shutter. The cellar was exposed again in the 1980s and turned into a memorial. In addition to the historic wedding stone, there are also newer memorial plaques on the facade of the building.
literature
- Wolfram Angerbauer , Hans Georg Frank: Jewish communities in the district and city of Heilbronn. History, fates, documents . District of Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1986 ( series of publications of the district of Heilbronn . Volume 1)
- Edmund Kiehnle: The Jews in Eppingen and their cult buildings . In: Around the Otilienberg - Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and its surroundings . Volume 3. Heimatfreunde Eppingen , Eppingen 1985
- Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn , Konrad Theiss-Verlag Stuttgart, 1991, p. 150.
Web links
City and half-timbered museum Old University | Pfeifferturm | Mikveh / Jordanbad | Museum of Evidence of Religious Faith | Archive for the history of rural life | Culture-Historical Museum | Truss path | Local history and tobacco museum Elsenz | Weinbaustube Kleingartach | Steinhauermuseum Mühlbach | Richen Farm Museum
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 9 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 28 ″ E