New Synagogue (Gliwice)

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 43.7 ″  N , 18 ° 39 ′ 59.6 ″  E

New Synagogue (Gliwice)​

Poland

Postcard with the synagogue in Gliwice (around 1920)

Plaque

The New Synagogue in Gleiwitz existed from 1859 to 1938. It stood at Niederwallstraße 15, but the main facade with the entrance faced Kirchstraße and Wilhelmsplatz.

The synagogue was built between 1859 and 1861 for the Reformed Jewish community in Gleiwitz, when the Old Synagogue, which had been in use since 1812, had become too small for the flourishing community. The facades were designed in the neo-Romanesque- Moorish style according to plans by the architects Salomon Lubowski and Louis Troplowitz (father of Oscar Troplowitz ), who were influenced by Albrecht Rosengarten's main synagogue in Kassel and the publication of his views and plans in the Wiener Allgemeine Bauzeitung . There were two towers on either side of the front.

The synagogue was set on fire during the November pogroms from November 9th to 10th, 1938. It was blown up on November 10th.

Today two plaques commemorate the synagogue and its destruction.

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945
• Funeral hall in Gliwice

Web links

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

• Photo of the New Synagogue
• The Synagogue in Gliwice, at “Zikaron - Memory”: Association for the Jewish Heritage of Gliwice (engl.)
• Jewish memory (in English)
• Virtual Shtetl - New Synagogue in Gleiwitz (English)