Old Synagogue (Stuttgart)

Old Synagogue Stuttgart, design by Gustav Adolf Breymann

The old synagogue in Stuttgart was built by the contractor Georg Schöttle according to plans by Gustav Adolf Breymann . The building was located in Stuttgart-Mitte , in the hospital district and there at Hospitalstrasse 36. On May 26, 1859 the foundation stone was laid . After Breymann died in 1859, his pupil Adolf Wolff continued building the synagogue . The inauguration took place on May 3, 1861.

description

The building was designed in the style of historicism with neo-Islamic elements. The east facade on Hospitalstrasse was crowned by Moorish battlements. In the middle part of the east facade was an apse in which the Torah shrine was located. A round arch , which was decorated with Moorish plant ornaments, rose above the apse . The interior architecture was based on the model of the Alhambra in Moorish Granada .

After the November pogrom in 1938 , the burned out synagogue was torn down. Ernst Guggenheimer was obliged to work on the forced demolition of the synagogue. In the post-war period he designed the new building for the synagogue and community center in Hospitalstrasse, which was built in 1951/52 .

literature

Stuttgart district. Prayer rooms / synagogues in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. The synagogues of the entire community. In: Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial Book of the Synagogues in Germany . Volume 4), pp. 461–469.