New Synagogue (Erfurt)

New synagogue

Inauguration of Rabbi Konstantin Pal 2010

The New Synagogue is the synagogue of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt . It is located on Juri-Gagarin-Ring and is the only (used) synagogue in Thuringia and one of only two synagogues built during the GDR era. It serves as a prayer room for the approximately 850 members of the Jewish State Community of Thuringia . Besides this, there is the old and the small synagogue in Erfurt , both of which are no longer used for church services.

history

The Great Synagogue stood on the site until it was destroyed in 1938 . In 1951/52 the new, simple, two-story plastered building was built according to plans by Willy Nöckel and inaugurated on August 31, 1952.

On April 20, 2000, three right-wing extremists, aged 17 and 18, carried out an arson attack on the synagogue. In November 2014 the street area in front of the synagogue was renamed Max-Cars-Platz . Max Cars (1894–1961) was the first chairman of the Jewish State Community of Thuringia after the Second World War.

See also

• List of sacred buildings erected in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR

Web links

Commons : New Synagogue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The New Synagogue on the website Jewish history and the present in Erfurt
• The New Synagogue on erfurt-web.de
• Julius Reinsberg: Erfurt's New Synagogue. In: ModerneREGIONAL , online magazine for cultural landscapes of post-war modernism, 2015, No. 1
• Henry Bernhard : Jewish community (Erfurt). "I feel safer in Erfurt than in Berlin". In: deutschlandfunk.de. May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erfurt: Right-wing extremists admit attack on synagogue. Der Spiegel , April 27, 2000, accessed June 26, 2010 . 
2. ↑ New synagogue in Erfurt now officially at Max-Cars-Platz. Thüringer Allgemeine , November 6, 2014, accessed on February 12, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 15.2 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 39.3 ″  E