New Synagogue (Hameln)
The New Synagogue is a synagogue built in 2011 in Hameln , a town in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony .
description
The synagogue stands on the foundations of the 1878/1879 built and the pogrom of November 1938 destroyed the Old Synagogue at Buren Street. Today there are two pyramid oaks , between which the old synagogue stood and which were planted for its consecration in 1879. In 1980 the forecourt of the synagogue property on Bürenstrasse was named "Synagogenplatz". A memorial stone has stood there since 1963. In 1996 a memorial was set up on the site as a two-part memorial that forms a unit with the synagogue.
The synagogue building is a red brick, oval-shaped building with two floors. A Star of David appears in a round window on the upper floor . The building was named Beitenu (German: Our House ) by the community members . It is the first new building of a liberal synagogue in Germany since 1945. The costs amounted to one million euros and were borne by the state of Lower Saxony, the city of Hameln and the district of Hameln-Pyrmont as well as the Jewish community.
history
During the National Socialist era , 101 people of Jewish origin who lived or were born in Hameln were murdered. After the liberation from National Socialism in 1945, there were still some Jewish people living in Hameln who did not identify themselves as Jews. Jewish life in Hameln was extinguished for a long time. It was not until the late 1990s that two Jewish communities were founded, including the Liberal Jewish Community of Hameln , which was founded in 1997 . She acquired the former synagogue site in 2001 and built the new synagogue on it in 2011 according to plans by architect Frank Taylor.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heinz-Peter Katlewski: A home. 14 years after it was founded, the community opens its center in Jüdische Allgemeine on February 24, 2011
- ^ Bernhard Gelderblom: The erection of the memorial stone in 1963 in the city of Hameln and its Jews
- ^ Bernhard Gelderblom: The redesign in Hameln in the city of Hameln and its Jews
- ^ Thorsten Fuchs: New Synagogue in Hameln opened in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on February 20, 2011
- ↑ Bernhard Gelderblom: After the extermination in the city of Hameln and its Jews
- ↑ Bernhard Gelderblom: Postwar Period and the Federal Republic of Germany in The City of Hameln and its Jews
- ^ Bernhard Gelderblom: Plans for a new synagogue in the city of Hameln and its Jews
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 1 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 40.5 ″ E