Mazzenbäckerei Lengnau
The Mazzenbäckerei Lengnau was a special bakery in the Surbtal village of Lengnau in the Swiss canton of Aargau . In the house, which was built in 1813 and demolished in 2013, matzo was baked from 1875 to 1903 and delivered to Jewish communities in Switzerland and neighboring countries.
Building and bakery
The building in the "Judendorf" Lengnau was built in 1813 as a residential building. The Jewish community also used it for meetings, both of the leadership and the congregation. In the basement there was also a mikveh , the Jewish women's bath (Lengnau) . The house was bought in 1875 by Samuel Daniel Guggenheim, who ran the matzo bakery in it. The matzo from Lengnau was delivered to Alsace , southern Germany and Austria . The bakery business was closed in 1903 because a matzo bakery was opened in Zurich and Guggenheim could not find a buyer for his property. Even after Guggenheim's death in 1910, the heirs did not find anyone interested in the bakery, so the house was rented out again for residential purposes. The condition of the house deteriorated noticeably and from 1972 the building was uninhabited. Between 1996 and 1998 Roy Oppenheim from Lengnau tried to collect money for the purchase of the house in order to preserve it as a cultural asset as the “House of Tolerance”. Since he was unable to raise the required CHF 700,000, the house was auctioned in March 2011. It was demolished on February 7, 2013.
