Neolog Synagogue (Bratislava)

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The synagogue on Fischplatz. In the background St. Martin's Cathedral (Bratislava)

The Neologe Synagogue ( Slovak Neologická synagóga ) was a synagogue in Bratislava . It was located on the Fish Square ( Rybné námestie ), not far from St. Martin's Cathedral . It is named after the neologic faith within Judaism in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary .

Symbolic illustration of the synagogue

It was built in 1893 (other information is from 1894) according to the project by the architect Dionys Milch with a rectangular floor plan and replaced the inn called Sonnenhaus , which had existed since the 18th century . Both the motif and the decoration were designed in an oriental style. There was an organ inside. On the front side there was a tower in Moorish style on each of the two corners . In the middle of the facade there were five entrances designed in the same style. The two eight-sided towers had domed roofs. The building, which was built by the Bratislava builder A. Feigler, cost 180,000 crowns .

The synagogue remained undamaged after the Second World War and there were plans to build a Jewish museum in the building. However, this was not done. Instead, the building was used by Slovak TV as a temporary television studio in the 1960s .

When it was decided to build the New Bridge , the extensive demolition of what was then Podhradie (Castle Grounds) began to make room for the access roads and the bridge itself. The synagogue was finally demolished in 1969, although it was not on the route. There was suspicion that the demolition also occurred for anti-Jewish reasons of the communist government .

Today there is a Holocaust memorial by Peter Zalman and Lucia Zalmanova (1996) on the site of the demolished neologists synagogue near St. Martin's Cathedral, on Fish Square (Rybné námestie). The memorial consists of a sculpture and a symbolic image of the synagogue on a reflective marble wall.

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Web links

Bratislava city map (1905)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Synagóga pripomínala orientálnu stavbu, vrcholom kacírstva bol organ , Bratislavské noviny, March 11, 1999, accessed on August 10, 2010 (Slovak)
  2. ^ PT (Ed.): Ulice a námestia Bratislavy; Podhradie - Theresienstadt - Terézváros . 1st edition. Bratislava 2003, ISBN 80-88912-39-3 , p. 83 .
  3. ↑ Juraj Bonco, Ján Čomaj: Búranie Podhradia - Stavba mosta SNP . Ed .: PT. 1st edition. Bratislava 2010, ISBN 978-80-8114-054-9 , p. 215 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 26 ″  N , 17 ° 6 ′ 18 ″  E