Kobersdorf synagogue

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Kobersdorf Synagogue (above: 2006, below: 2016)
History (street notice, Kobersdorf tourist office)
Location in relation to Kobersdorf Castle . The synagogue is on the left edge of the picture

The Kobersdorf Synagogue is a neo-Romanesque building in the market town of Kobersdorf in Burgenland . The former synagogue until 1938 is now used as a cultural center and is a listed building .

history

Since the place Kobersdorf was one of the seven communities , Judaism was tolerated here even before the tolerance patent . The Jewish community of Kobersdorf built its synagogue in 1860, which was inaugurated on April 11, 1860. In 1938, when Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, the Jewish residents were expelled and destroyed and the synagogue was plundered. The planned demolition was not carried out and the building was used as a gymnasium and home for the SA until 1945 . After the war, the former synagogue was left to decay for decades. A restoration began in 1976. In 1995, an association bought the synagogue from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien in order to use the building as a cultural center and to preserve it as a monument . A rescission lawsuit by the IKG Vienna was dismissed in 2011.

In 2017, a memorial was erected in the immediate vicinity of the synagogue to commemorate the 219 expelled and murdered Jews from Kobersdorf.

In 2019, the state of Burgenland bought the synagogue and, after renovation, wants to use it as an event location and memorial.

architecture

It is a rectangular building in neo-Romanesque arches with a gable roof. The three-bay main room is held by four heavy corner pillars and is vaulted with spherical vaults. The Torah shrine was let in on the east side. The women's gallery runs around the main room on three sides in a horseshoe shape and also covers the vestibules to the west.

literature

  • Adelheid Schmeller-Kitt : The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland . Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7031-0401-5 , p. 155.
  • Judith Susanna Welz-Käsznar: Synagogue Kobersdorf. Revitalization. Remaining Jewish history in Burgenland . Thesis. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna 2008, OBV .
  • Erwin Hausensteiner: The former Jewish community Kobersdorf . History of the former Jewish residents of Kobersdorf from the beginnings in the 16th century to the expulsion in 1938. Book with about 240 pages, Kobersdorf 2008, OCLC 642719750 .
  • Josef Tiefenbach: Preservation and administration of the cultural heritage using the example of the Kobersdorf synagogue or how this task can also be understood . In: Jakob Perschy (Hrsg.), Karin Sperl (Hrsg.): Focus Burgenland - Spectrum of cultural studies. Festschrift for Roland Widder . Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government (Department 7), Eisenstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-901517-81-5 , pp. 491–498.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 150 years of the Kobersdorf synagogue. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 29, 2014 ; Retrieved April 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.davidkultur.at
  2. ↑ Kobersdorf. Retrieved April 30, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Land buys Kobersdorf synagogue. In: burgenland.orf.at . June 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019.
  4. ^ Litigation over the Kobersdorf synagogue ended. Retrieved April 30, 2015 .
  5. ^ Hausensteiner, Erwin: The history of the origins of the memorial in Kobersdorf, 2017.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1941, the press noted that the educational documentary The Eternal Jew was shown in several screenings in Kobersdorf . - See: ... and what do you say? (...) The Gaufilmstelle visits border towns in the Lower Danube. In:  Das kleine Volksblatt , No. 92/1941, April 2, 1941, p. 6, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkv.

Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '53.4 "  N , 16 ° 23' 29.9"  E