Rosenak house

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The Rosenak House is a monument in the Schnoor district of Bremen . It has been listed as "Haus Lea" since 1973 and was given its new name in honor of Leopold Rosenak . The building served the Jewish community in Bremen, in which Leopold Rosenak worked as a rabbi , from 1927 until the so-called Reichspogromnacht from November 9th to 10th 1938 (belittled by the National Socialists as "Reichskristallnacht") as a community hall and as a "small one." Synagogue ”for the weekday service.

History of the building

The building was built around 1820 as a residential building. The synagogue of the Israelite Congregation in Bremen had been in the neighboring house since 1876 (Kolpingstrasse 6 - then Gartenstrasse 6) . In 1927 they expanded their community center to include the Rosenak house. From then on, the house served the community as a meeting place and housed teaching halls, classrooms and offices of various community associations.

During the November pogroms of 1938, the synagogue complex was looted and set on fire by SA men on the night of November 9-10, 1938 . The remnants of the Jewish community still remaining in Bremen had to use alternative rooms on Kohlhökerstraße from now on.

The building was bought by neighbors who, after long negotiations, agreed to return the building to the Jewish community in Bremen after the war. However, due to a lack of money, the Rosenak house could not renovate it until the 1950s and it was ultimately sold.

It was only during the renovation work carried out by Wilhelm Viehoff in 1959 that the remnants of the “small synagogue” in the basement were rediscovered. This was built over by today's Rosenak House and has since been used as a memorial and meeting place. The rest of the building is currently used by Caritas , which offers social counseling services here, among other things. In addition, the Catholic aid organization is committed to preserving the Jewish memorial.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ↑ Discussions follow unity , March 12, 2010 Kreiszeitung. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. ^ Eckhard Stengel Rosenak-Haus rescued Jüdische Allgemeine from October 18, 2012, accessed on November 23, 2015

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '22.9 "  N , 8 ° 48' 38.2"  E