Weissensee Jewish workers' colony
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 43 " N , 13 ° 27 ′ 42" E
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The Jewish workers' colony Weißensee was a workers colony that was opened in 1902 on Wörthstraße (today: Smetanastraße) in what is now the Berlin district of Weißensee . At that time it was the first Jewish workers' colony in Germany.
history
The initiator of the facility was the German-Israelite Community Association . The building was designed between 1900 and 1901 by the architects Johann Hoeniger and Jakob Sedelmeier .
The building was no longer used as a workers' colony in 1922. From 1923 the main building was used as a “permanent home for the idiotic Jewish people ”, namely for adult handicapped people who had been released from the “Israelitische Erziehungsanstalt for mentally retarded children in Beelitz ”. In 1935 a girls' home was also set up.
The first residents of the home were deported to the Trawniki forced labor camp in April 1942, the last in October.
In the GDR the house served as an administration building.
Around 1980 a stele designed by Josef Höhn to commemorate the deportations was installed in the inner courtyard .
Today the building is a listed building and there are condominiums in the building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo of the stele
- ↑ Entry list of monuments
- ^ Roadside Story - A stele for a Jewish work home. In: Berliner Zeitung , August 16, 2018