Liberal synagogue Koenigsberg

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New synagogue Koenigsberg, 1900
New Synagogue Kaliningrad, 2019

The New Liberal Synagogue was a synagogue in Königsberg (Prussia) .

Like the Hanover Synagogue and the Wroclaw Synagogue, it was designed in the style of eclecticism and historicism based on the models of the Worms and Aachen Cathedral . The building was based on designs by the Berlin architecture firm Cremer & Wolffenstein , which were awarded a prize in the 1892 architecture competition. In 2008 it was decided to reconstruct the synagogue in its old location, which was destroyed in 1938. The new building was inaugurated on November 8, 2018.

history

After those of Berlin and Wroclaw , the Jewish community of Königsberg was the third largest in Germany. At the beginning of the 20th century there were several synagogues for the liberal , Polish and Hasidic Jews in Königsberg . The Orthodox community of Adass Yisroel had a prayer room on Synagogenstrasse.

The largest synagogue in Königsberg was the New Liberal Synagogue. It stood on the east side of Lindenstrasse (today: Oktjabrskaja-Strasse), opposite the Honey Bridge to the Cathedral Island (→ city ​​map from 1905 , grid square E4). On August 25, 1896, it was inaugurated as the third synagogue in East Prussia's provincial capital. In attendance were Lord President Wilhelm von Bismarck , Lord Mayor Hermann Theodor Hoffmann , Professors Karl von Gareis and Adalbert Bezzenberger , City Commander Eugen Keyler and Second Mayor Karl Brinkmann .

The building was a tall, domed central building modeled on the Aachen Cathedral , flanked by rounded towers like the Worms Cathedral . The facade was decorated with a high portal with a rose window .

The synagogue was destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 . The adjacent Jewish orphanage (built in 1904 based on a design by Fritz Behrendt ) has been preserved to this day.

The reconstruction of the New Synagogue in the old location had been approved since 2008 and was based on the historical model, but with a modern interior. A symbolic foundation stone was laid in 2011. The synagogue was reopened on November 8, 2018 in the presence of high-ranking representatives of the federal and regional governments, foreign diplomats and prominent personalities by the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar . The Minister of State Michael Roth attended as a representative of the German government, the inauguration ceremony.

  • New synagogue

  • inner space

See also

Web links

Commons : Liberale Synagoge Königsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the inauguration, 1921 (PDF)
  2. ↑ The symbol of the synagogue organ . On: faz.net on January 29, 2007
  3. ^ Nils Aschenbeck: Modern architecture in East Prussia . 1991, p. 10 ( ostpreussen.de [PDF; accessed December 30, 2012]).
  4. ^ Kaliningrad: Jewish community wins circus trial . On: kaliningrad.aktuell.ru on August 30, 2012
  5. ↑ | title = Minister of State Michael Roth at the opening of the "New Königsberg Synagogue" in Kaliningrad , press release from the Foreign Office on November 7, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2018.

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 '  N , 20 ° 31'  E