Jewish community center (Herford)

View from the west 2011

The Jewish community hall at Komturstrasse 21 in Herford is a listed neo-Gothic brick building from the 1890s.

history

Old synagogue and parish hall around 1900

New synagogue (under construction) and parish hall 2010

The building was erected between 1892 and 1893 in connection with the expansion of the neighboring Herford synagogue , which was forty years older . It later served as a community center, a Jewish school and as a residence for community employees. During the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was set on fire and later demolished, the parish hall was preserved. After the Second World War , the Jewish community set up a prayer room there.

From 2008 to 2010, a new synagogue in the style of the previous building was built on the old site, which forms an ensemble of buildings with the parish hall .

The parish hall has been a listed building since 1993 .

literature

• Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, II. Westphalia, 2nd, revised. Ed., Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 436.

Web links

Commons : Synagoge Herford  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Central Council of Jews in Germany: Synagogue Komturstrasse
2. ↑ stadtfuehrung-herford.de: Synagogue
3. ^ Dehio, p. 436.
4. ↑ List of architectural monuments in the city of Herford (PDF file; 77 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 54.7 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 36.7"  E