Old synagogue square
The Alte Synagogenplatz is a square on the Große Mantelgasse in Heidelberg's old town near the Neckar . On it stood a synagogue that was burned down by the National Socialists during the November pogroms on November 10, 1938 . It was designed by the architect Hermann Behaghel and built in 1877/78 after the former house "Zur Blaue Lilie", which had been used as a house of prayer, had become too small.
The property was bought by the city of Heidelberg in 1942, confiscated by the Allied military in 1945 and returned to the newly founded Jewish community of Heidelberg in 1951, which in turn sold it to the city in 1955. The so-called Alte Synagogenplatz since 1956 was initially used as a parking lot and in 1978 it was converted into a park.
In 2001 the square was redesigned again and received a memorial. The memorial, designed by the city of Heidelberg with the support of a citizens' initiative, shows the floor plan of the destroyed synagogue in white marble paving. Gray granite marks their windows and the front door. Twelve sandstone cubes are reminiscent of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and represent the former benches. The memorial stone, which was erected after the end of the war and has since been moved to the Jewish part of the mountain cemetery , was put back on the site of the former Torah shrine .
Furthermore, memorial plaques for the deported, deported and murdered Jews of Heidelberg, on which their names are noted, were put up.
Old synagogue square
Memorial stone
Nameplates
Plaque
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 47 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 22" E