List of synagogues in Germany

This list contains the synagogues used as such in Germany .

Synagogues that previously served as such or that are used for purposes other than exclusively religious are not listed. Prayer rooms are also not listed.

In 2013 there were 99 synagogues and 31 prayer halls in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Before the Second World War there were around 2,800 synagogues and prayer rooms in Germany. Thousands of historical synagogues in Germany were destroyed by arson during the November pogroms in 1938 or destroyed during the war years up to 1945. So far, only a few synagogues have been rebuilt , often there have been much smaller replacement buildings or no synagogue at all in the affected city or district.

Lists of the individual federal states

Baden-Württemberg

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Hospitalstrasse synagogue and community center	Stuttgart location	1987	?	The previous synagogue built in 1861 at the same location was destroyed in 1938.
	Werderstrasse synagogue	Baden-Baden location	1956	?	Was set up in a building of 18xx
	Synagogue and community center F3	Mannheim location	1987	Unified Church
	Synagogue and community center at Häusserstraße	Heidelberg location	1994	?	New building
	Synagogue and community center Knielinger Allee	Karlsruhe location	1971	Unified Church	New building
	New synagogue	Loerrach location	2008	?
	Synagogue and community center Nussmannstrasse	Freiburg in Breisgau location	1987	orthodox	New building
	Emilienstraße synagogue	Pforzheim location	2006	?	New building
	Synagogue Landvogtei	Emmendingen location	1999	orth. unitary community	New building
	Synagogue and community center Ulm	Ulm location	2012		New building
	Sigismundstrasse synagogue	Constancy	2019	?	New building

Bavaria

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
more pictures	Synagogue Ansbach	Ansbach location	Erected 1744–46, consecrated in 1746	?	Until 1737 the synagogue was replaced by a Jewish school and a private house, which Leopoldo Retti combined into one building and from 1744–46 created the synagogue. In 1938, parts of the interior were destroyed and set on fire by two SA men. After 1945 there was no longer a Jewish community in Ansbach. In 1964 the synagogue was therefore declared a museum and symbolic place of worship .
more pictures	Amberg synagogue	On the mountain location	Inaugurated in 1897	?	In 1896 the Jewish community in Amberg acquired the house at Salzgasse 5, which was inaugurated as a synagogue on January 12, 1897. In 1938 the interior was destroyed by SA men from Amberg. Since 1945 the building has once again been the synagogue of the Amberg Jewish community, which has 129 members (2012).
more pictures	Synagogue and community center Halderstrasse	augsburg location	1917/1963	?	The building has existed as a synagogue since 1917. During the Reichspogromnacht , a fire was set in which the facility was destroyed. 1963 rebuilt to a synagogue.
more pictures	Parish hall with synagogue room	Bad Kissingen location	Rebuilt in 1956	?	The building was originally built in 1902 as a parish hall and is located next to the construction site of the synagogue that was destroyed in 1938.
	Community center with synagogue Willy-Lessing-Straße	Bamberg location	2005	?	Was set up in an older building.
more pictures	Bayreuth synagogue	Bayreuth location	Rebuilt in 1760/1965	?	Interior was destroyed on November 10, 1938. Reopened in 1945.
	Hallemannstrasse synagogue	Fuerth location	1868	?	Erected at the end of the 19th century as a synagogue for an orphanage. Synagogue was damaged in the pogrom night. 1967 Re-inauguration.
more pictures	Synagogue and community center Jakobsplatz	Munich location	2006	orthodox
	Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg	Nuremberg location	1984	?
more pictures	Straubing Synagogue	Straubing location	1907	?	The synagogue was set on fire on November 10, 1938, and its inventory was destroyed. The external appearance was retained. Reopened in 1946.
	Synagogue with community center on Valentin-Becker-Strasse	Wurzburg location	1970	?	New building
more pictures	Ringstrasse synagogue	Willows in the Upper Palatinate location	1889	Masorti movement (Masorti Germany), egalitarian	On November 10, 1938, the interior was destroyed. Reopened in 1945.
more pictures	Synagogue at the Brixner Hof	regensburg location	1945	?	Established in an existing Jewish building. Located not far from the synagogue that was destroyed in 1938. A new synagogue is planned for 2019.

Berlin

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Beth Zion Synagogue , Brunnenstrasse	Berlin location	2005	orthodox	One of the last surviving private court synagogues in Berlin. Built in 1910 for the Jewish Orthodox Beth Zion Community and demolished by the National Socialists in 1938. It was re-inaugurated in 2005 and is now part of a Talmud Torah school. It also serves as a synagogue for the Kahal Adass Yisroel community
	former synagogue Fasanenstrasse	Berlin location	1959	liberal	New building. At the site was a synagogue from 1912 that was set on fire and looted by the Nazis on November 9, 1938. Ruins were torn down in 1958 for the new building.
	Fraenkelufer synagogue	Berlin location	1959	conservative	Synagogue was set up in the 1916 annex to the synagogue that was destroyed in 1938.
	Joachimsthaler Strasse synagogue	Berlin location	1938	Ashkenazi Orthodox	1938 no destruction.
	Synagogue in the Jewish hospital	Berlin location	1914	?	The building was restored as a synagogue in 2002, the original building dates from 1914.
	Münstersche Strasse synagogue	Berlin location	2007	orthodox / hasidic	Chabad Synagogue
	Oranienburger Strasse synagogue	Berlin location	1866	reform (egalitarian minyan )	New Synagogue ( http://www.jg-berlin.org/judentum/synagogen/oranienburger-strasse.html )
	Pestalozzistraße synagogue	Berlin location	1912	liberal	Minimally damaged in 1938. Reopened in 1947.
	Rykestrasse Synagogue	Berlin location	1904	liberal-conservative	1938 only minimally damaged due to the tightly built inner city location. Reopened in 1953. Largest synagogue in Germany.
	Sukkat Schalom Synagogue , Herbartstrasse	Berlin location	1981	reform (egalitarian minyan )	New building
	Sukkat Schalom Synagogue, Hüttenweg	Berlin location	1999	reform (egalitarian minyan )	in the former interreligious center of the US troops (moved to Herbartstrasse)
	Synagogue Tifferet Israel, Passauer Strasse	Berlin location	2006	Sephardic Orthodox
	Tucholskystraße synagogue	Berlin location	?	orthodox	Synagogue congregation Adass Yisroel

Brandenburg

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	New synagogue	Potsdam location	(planned)	?	Completion originally planned for 2012
	Cottbus synagogue	cottbus location	The synagogue of the Jewish Community Cottbus was inaugurated in 2015 in the former castle church.	Orthodox	2015
	Jewish community center	Brandenburg on the Havel location	The Jewish community center is used as a synagogue for the city's Jewish community

Bremen

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Synagogue and community center Bremen	Bremen location	1961	Unified Church	New building. A synagogue was burned down at the site on November 10, 1938.

Hamburg

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Synagogue and community center Hamburg	Hamburg location	1960	orthodox	New building

Hesse

See also the list of synagogues in Hesse with all former synagogues.

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Westend Synagogue	Frankfurt am Main location	1910	Unified Church	On the night of November 10, 1938, the interior of the synagogue was devastated and the fire that had been set could be extinguished. Reopened in 1946. It was the only one of four synagogues to survive the pogroms of 1938 and the Second World War, badly damaged. Provisionally re-consecrated in 1950, faithfully restored from 1989 to 1994.
	Synagogue Baumweg	Frankfurt am Main location
	Bornheimer Landwehr synagogue	Frankfurt am Main location	1977	Unified Church	Elderly center with synagogue; New building
	Henry and Emma Budge Foundation Synagogue	Frankfurt am Main location	2003	Unified Church	Synagogue in the elderly center; New building
	Bad Nauheim synagogue	Bad Nauheim location	1929	?	On November 10, 1938, the window panes were smashed, furniture was destroyed, and a lit fire could be put out. Reopened in 1945.
	New synagogue	Offenbach am Main location	1956	?	New building. 1997 to 1998 expanded
	Friedrichstrasse Synagogue	Wiesbaden location	1966	?	The new building replaced the Orthodox synagogue from 1897.
	Liebigstrasse synagogue	Marburg location	2005	?	Established in an older, existing building.
	Bremer Strasse synagogue	kassel location	2000	?	New building. Not far from the synagogue from 1838, which was destroyed in 1938.
	Synagogue moat	to water location	1995	?	Synagogue was originally built in Wohra in 1855 and relocated in 1995.
	Synagogue Wilhelm-Glässing-Strasse 26	Darmstadt location	1988	?	New building
	Von-Schildeck-Strasse synagogue	Fulda location	1987	?	It was set up in the former Jewish schoolhouse on the first floor.
	Synagogue Wilhelmstrasse 11	Hanau	2005	?	Established in an older, existing building.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

(See also the list of synagogues in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in which all former synagogues in the state are listed.)

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	New Schwerin Synagogue	Schwerin location	2008	?	New building. It stands on the site of the synagogue from 1819, which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. The ruins had to be removed by the parishioners themselves.
	New Synagogue Rostock in Augustenstr. 20th	Rostock	2004	?	Synagogue, parish hall

Lower Saxony

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Celle synagogue	Celle location	1740	?	Was devastated in 1938. Restored in 1945.
	Synagogue of the Liberal Jewish Community of Hanover	Hanover location	2009	liberal	Located in the premises of the former Evangelical Gustav Adolf Church, which has been converted into a synagogue.
	Synagogue on Haeckelstrasse	Hanover location	1960	Unified Church	New building
	Synagogue of the Bucharian Community of Hanover	Hanover location	2013	Bucharian Jews	Conversion of the Maria Magdalenen Church, which was de -dedicated in 2009, into the "Blue Synagogue"
	Osnabrück synagogue	Osnabrück location	1969, 2008-2010 expanded	?
	Leo-Trepp- Strasse synagogue	Oldenburg location	1995	?	Was set up in a former Baptist chapel from 1867.
	Synagogue Angerstrasse	Goettingen location	2008	liberal	Synagogue was originally built in Bodenfelde in 1826 and implemented in 2008.
	Brunswick Synagogue	Braunschweig location	2006	?	New building. At the site of a synagogue that existed until 1938.
	Hameln synagogue	Hamelin location	2011	reform	Synagogue of the Hameln Jewish Community.
	Wolfsburg Synagogue	Wolfsburg location	2007	Orthodox	Synagogue of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Wolfsburg.

North Rhine-Westphalia

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Beit Tikwa Synagogue	Bielefeld location	2008	Unified Church	Located in the converted building of the former evangelical Paul Gerhardt Church
	Klosterstrasse synagogue	Muenster location	1961	?	New building. Stands on the spot where a synagogue from 1880 was burned down on November 10, 1938.
	Synagogue Gemarker Strasse	Wuppertal location	2002	Unified Church	New building
	Synagogue Duisburg	Duisburg location	1999	Unified Church	New building
	Synagogue and community center Synagogenplatz	Aachen location	1995	Unified Church	The new building stands on the site of the synagogue that was inaugurated in 1861 and destroyed in 1938
	Synagogue Cologne	Cologne location	1899	orthodox	On the night of November 10, 1938, the synagogue was set on fire and burned down. The ruin remained standing. Reopened in 1959.
	Synagogue Ottostraße	Cologne location	2003	?	New building
	Synagogue of the Jewish Liberal Congregation Cologne Gescher LaMassoret eV	Cologne-Riehl location	2003	Liberal	former Protestant parish hall
	New synagogue	Dusseldorf location	1958	Unified Church	New building
	Pipinstrasse synagogue	Paderborn location	1957	?	New building
	Synagogue at the police headquarters	Recklinghausen location	1997	Unified Church	Located close to the place where the synagogue was destroyed in 1938. Set up in a Jewish building from the early 1950s.
	Wiedstrasse synagogue	Krefeld location	2008	?	New building
	Albertusstrasse synagogue	Mönchengladbach location	1967	?	The location is not far from the synagogue that was destroyed in 1938. Synagogue was established in the existing building.
	Kampstrasse synagogue	Minden location	1958	?	Location is next to the synagogue that was destroyed in 1938. Synagogue was set up in the still-preserved parish hall.
	New Synagogue Gelsenkirchen	Gelsenkirchen location	2007	Unity church - Orth. Rite	New building. A synagogue on the site was burned to the ground in 1939 from 1885.
	Herford synagogue	Herford location	2010	?	New building. A synagogue on the site was destroyed in 1939.
	Potthofstrasse synagogue	Hagen location	1960	Unified Church	New building.
	Synagogue on Prinz-Friedrich-Karl Strasse	Dortmund location	1956	Unified Church	New building
	Synagogue (Bonn)	Bonn location	1959	?	New building
	Synagogue Erich-Mendel-Platz	Bochum location	2008	?	New building
	New Synagogue (Essen)	eat location	1959	?	New building. A Jewish youth center on the site was destroyed in 1938.

Rhineland-Palatinate

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Ahrweiler synagogue	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler	1894	?	On November 10, 1938, SA men burned the inventory and destroyed the windows. The Bürgererverein Synagoge eV acquired the building in 1981. In the years up to 1990 it was renovated in cooperation with the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and is now used as a location for cultural events.
	Kaiserstrasse synagogue	trier location	1957	?	New building
	Synagogue and parish hall in Koblenz	Koblenz location	1947	?	Established in 1947 in the 1925 mourning hall.
	Bad Kreuznach synagogue	Bad Kreuznach location	2002	?	Was set up in a former US barracks
	New Synagogue Mainz	Mainz location	2010	?	New building. The main synagogue on the site was destroyed in 1938. After that, from 1961 on, there was a synagogue in Forsterstraße in the building where community life took place after the synagogue was destroyed in 1938.
	Weisenau synagogue	Mainz-Weisenau location	1996	?	Erected in 1737/38. Was not set on fire in 1938 due to its proximity to the directly adjacent buildings. Served as a shed, warehouse and chicken coop in the post-war period. Restored from 1992, rededicated in 1996.
	Beith Shalom Synagogue	Speyer location	11/09/2011	?	The fourth synagogue in Speyer. The third previous building was destroyed by the Nazis on November 9, 1938. From the second Romanesque synagogue there is still a wall and next to it the mikveh .
	Worms synagogue	Worms location	1947	?	The original building, destroyed between 1938 and 1942, was one of the oldest synagogues in Germany. From 1958 to 1961 the late Romanesque building was rebuilt in its old form.

Saarland

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Saarbrücken parish hall and synagogue	Saarbrücken location	1951	?

Saxony

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Synagogue and community center Hasenberg	Dresden location	2001	?	New building. A synagogue was burned down at the site on November 9, 1938. The ruin was blown up in 1938.
	Synagogue and community center on Stollberger Strasse	Chemnitz location	2002	?	New building from 2002. It is located on the site on which the parish hall was built in 1961.
	Brody Synagogue	Leipzig location	1904	?	Windows destroyed on November 9, 1938 and the prayer room devastated, then profaned and used as a soap factory until 1945, reopened as a synagogue in 1945.

Saxony-Anhalt

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Synagogue Humboldtstrasse	Halle (Saale) location	1953	?	In 1894, the congregation established itself in the building that was built into a mourning hall, which was converted into a synagogue in 1953
	Parish hall with prayer room Steinstrasse	Dessau location	1945	?	Was set up in the former house of the cantor

Schleswig-Holstein

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	Lubeck synagogue	Lübeck location	1880	orthodox
	Synagogue and parish hall	Bad Segeberg location	2007	liberal
	Prayer hall with parish hall on Waitzstrasse	Kiel location	2019	liberal	Replaced the synagogue on Schrevenpark, which was set up in a building from the 1950s in 2008.

Thuringia

image	Surname	State / city / town	Year of construction or commissioning	Alignment	Comment / destruction / previous use
	New Synagogue Erfurt	Erfurt location	1952	orthodox	New building, inauguration on August 31, 1952. It was built on the site of the Great Synagogue in Erfurt , which was built in 1884 and robbed and burned down on the night of November 10, 1938. The ruin was removed at the expense of the community. Today the New Synagogue is the center of the Jewish State Community of Thuringia.
	Berkach synagogue	Berkach location	1854		The synagogue was built in 1854 to replace an old synagogue. It was sold undamaged to the community in 1939 and later used as a forge and storage room. At the beginning of the 1990s an extensive renovation took place and on November 3, 1991 the building was ceremoniously re-inaugurated as a synagogue.
	Mühlhausen synagogue	Mühlhausen / Thuringia location	1841	orthodox	After 1945 the former synagogue was given to the Jewish state community of Thuringia (1947). Since 1987 efforts have been made to restore the building, which was carried out in the 1990s. The building was inaugurated again on November 9, 1998. The former synagogue and the Jewish parish hall have since been used as a meeting place with an exhibition and library.

See also

• Liberal Synagogue in Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) - intended reconstruction
• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945
• List of religious buildings in Germany

literature

• Elke-Vera Kotowski (Ed.): Synagogues in Brandenburg. Search for clues. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95565-014-8 .

Web links

• Synagogues on the homepage of the Central Council of Jews in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Statistical Yearbook 2014 , p. 64
2. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany , accessed on February 16, 2016
3. ^ Synagogues after 1945 - Central Council of Jews
4. ^ Rüdiger Soldt: Sculpture of decisiveness. In: faz.net. Retrieved January 15, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Hermann Dallhammer, Werner citizens: Ansbach: history of a city . Hercynia, Ansbach 1993, ISBN 978-3-925063-35-0 .
6. ↑ Zentralratdjuden.de
7. ↑ alemannia-judaica.de
8. ^ Synagogue Hanover - Central Council of Jews
9. ↑ Jüdische-Allgemeine, June 13, 2013
10. ^ Warnecke, Hans .: The Ahrweiler synagogue: an example of Jewish-German history in the 19th and 20th centuries . Courir, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-89052-001-4 .
11. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany: Chemnitz. Synagogue and community center on Stollberger Strasse. Accessed August 15, 2012
12. ↑ Schwierz, Israel: Evidence of the Jewish Past in Thuringia ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF file; 23.77 MB) 

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