List of old synagogues in Hessen
Of the around 220 synagogues that were located in what is now the state of Hesse in the 1930s , only a few were able to escape destruction by the National Socialists during the November pogroms in 1938 . The preserved houses of worship are mostly buildings that had previously been abandoned by their parishes or whose destruction was not or only incompletely carried out due to the proximity to neighboring houses.
The following list shows the synagogues that still exist in Hesse today. Former places of worship that have been converted into residential or commercial buildings or warehouses in a way that makes the original function unrecognizable are not taken into account:
- Former synagogue in Adorf
- Former synagogue Assenheim (district of Niddatal )
- Former synagogue Auerbach (district of Bensheim )
- Synagogue (Bad Nauheim)
- Former synagogue Beselich- Schupbach
- Synagogue (Erfelden)
- Westend Synagogue Frankfurt
- Former synagogue in Gelnhausen
- Former synagogue Großkrotzenburg
- Former synagogue (Groß-Umstadt) (The synagogue was removed from its historical location and rebuilt in the Hessenpark open-air museum .)
- Former synagogue in Gudensberg
- Former synagogue (Hadamar)
- Former state synagogue in Heubach
- Former synagogue in Höringhausen
- Former synagogue in Hofheim am Taunus
- Former synagogue Idstein
- Former synagogue in Kirchhain
- Former synagogue Klein-Krotzenburg
- Michelstadt synagogue
- Former synagogue Nentershausen (Hessen) (The half-timbered synagogue was demolished in 1987 and rebuilt including a mikveh in the Hessenpark open-air museum by 1996)
- Former synagogue in Pfungstadt
- Former Synagogue Rodgau -Weiskirchen
- Former synagogue Romrod
- Former synagogue in Roth (district of Weimar an der Lahn )
- Former synagogue in Waldeck-Sachsenhausen
- Former Schlüchtern synagogue
- Former synagogue Vöhl
- Former synagogue in Maintal-Wachenbuchen
Photo gallery
Höringhausen
Michelstadt
Westend Synagogue Frankfurt / Main
Vöhl
literature
- Thea Altaras : Synagogues in Hessen, what has happened since 1945? A documentation and analysis of all 221 Hessian locations whose synagogues survived the pogrom night of 1938 and the Second World War; 223 architectural descriptions and building histories. Königstein: Langewiesche 1988.