New Town Synagogue (Rzeszów)
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The New Town Synagogue (also known as the Great Synagogue ) is a secular synagogue in Rzeszów , the capital of the Polish Subcarpathian Voivodeship . It was built in the early 18th century. The old town synagogue, which is around 100 years older, is in the immediate vicinity and within sight .
history
The synagogue was built between 1709–1712. A city fire in 1842 also destroyed the building, but it was rebuilt soon afterwards and remained in this form until the Second World War .
It was used as a military warehouse during the war and burned down in 1944. Only the walls were preserved.
During the reconstruction in 1954-1965 extensive changes were made to use it as a cultural center. A second floor was drawn in and a third was added in place of the previous roof.
architecture
The main room was slightly trapezoidal with a width of 15 m in the west and 16 m in the east and a length of 17.50 m. The walls were reinforced with buttresses. The arched windows were installed at a great height.
The room and ceiling were divided into nine fields by four massive pillars, in the middle of which stood the bima , a stylistic device that often appeared in synagogues in the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic and is known as the nine-field synagogue . In the case of the Neustadt synagogue, the pillars were a little closer together, which meant that the outer fields were larger and the middle one was the smallest.
There were pilasters on the walls that corresponded to the pillars , and the walls were also divided into three horizontal zones.
There was an oculus above the Torah shrine .
To the west was a vestibule over which the women's prayer rooms were. These were open to the main hall and could be reached via external stairs. They were probably only created during renovations between the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Source
- ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish - Lithuania Commonwealth. Pages 362-366. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2017, ISBN 978-83-942344-3-0 . Detailed description.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 19 ″ N , 22 ° 0 ′ 27 ″ E