Old Synagogue Ohel Jakob

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Old Synagogue Ohel Jakob
Invitation to the Yom Kippur celebration in the year 5669 (1908 according to Christian calendar) in the synagogue

The Old Synagogue Ohel Jakob ( Hebrew : אהל יעקב, Jacob's tent ) was the synagogue of the Orthodox part of the Israelite religious community in Munich . It was on Herzog-Rudolf-Strasse (formerly Kanalstrasse). During the November pogroms in 1938 , it was set on fire by Adolf Hitler's raiding party. It was then torn down.

Building

The design comes from August Exter . The neo-Romanesque building with a rather simple facade was 16 meters long and 19 meters high compared to the main synagogue on Herzog-Max-Straße and was rather modest in size. It offered space for 150 believers.

The synagogue included a Jewish school that was housed in the neighboring former production rooms; In 1928 it was expanded.

history

After the destruction in the night of the pogrom
Plaque

The introduction of a new prayer book in 1876 ​​and the redesign of the service with organ accompaniment and choir singing - traditionally not common - prompted a smaller group of Orthodox parishioners to found the Ohel Jakob Association . The Orthodox believers avoided worship in the rest of the community and first met in a prayer room on Kanalstrasse; Despite the differences, however, they did not split off from the religious community. When the new main synagogue was completed in 1887, a request was made to make the previous synagogue on Westenriederstrasse available to the Orthodox on a rental basis. Partly in order not to deepen the division in the community, partly for financial reasons, the request was refused to sell the old synagogue instead. A restoration of the dilapidated house would have been expensive, the proceeds from the valuable property were urgently needed by the religious community. The Orthodox finally financed the construction of the Ohel Jakob synagogue on Kanalstrasse from their own resources. The foundation stone was laid in 1891 and the inauguration took place on March 25, 1892. In 1924 a Jewish school was founded as a public denomination school, which was taken over by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in 1933.

The Ohel Jakob synagogue was set on fire during the pogrom night of November 9th to 10th, 1938. The cost of demolishing the ruin was imposed on the community and the school was closed. Today a memorial plaque on Herzog-Rudolf-Straße 1 reminds of the destruction of the synagogue.

The new main synagogue in the Jewish Center Munich bears the name Ohel Jakob again .

rabbi

  • 1892–1929: Heinrich Ehrentreu
  • 1929–1938: Ernst Ehrentreu, son of Heinrich Ehrentreus

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Alte Synagoge Ohel Jakob (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. a b Bayerische Staatszeitung, issue 16 of April 21, 2006 , accessed on February 21, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E