Synagogue (Aschenhausen)

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The Aschenhausen Synagogue is a listed assembly building of the former Jewish community in Aschenhausen in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia . It is the oldest surviving Jewish meeting house in southern Thuringia . In the middle of the 19th century the community comprised over 50 families and had a schoolhouse, a teacher's apartment and a Jewish cemetery . In 1942 there were still three families of Jewish faith living in the village; they were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and died there.

history

A horse stable at the castle was converted into a synagogue in 1738 , before that there was presumably a prayer room in a private apartment. After a nearby bakery caught fire, the synagogue burned down in 1841. With the help of donations and a grant from the Grand Ducal Weimar government in the amount of 400 thalers, a garden was bought by the barons of Speßhardt and a new synagogue was built there. The retracted entrance hall has three axes. Because of the persecution of the Jews , many Jewish citizens left the place in the 1930s. One last service took place in 1936, after which the synagogue was sold to a resident of non-Jewish faith. Allegedly, the Torah scrolls and other cult objects were removed from the building beforehand and buried in the cemetery. The building was not set on fire during the Reichspogromnacht , although SA men from Kaltennordheim came for this purpose , as it was used as a barn and was filled with hay at the time.

Until the 1980s, the synagogue deteriorated more and more, it was entered in the list of monuments of the Meiningen district in 1980 and extensively renovated from 1989 to 1991 according to original findings. Today the building is used as a meeting place.

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  1. ↑ a b c Stephanie Eißing, Franz Jäger u. A. in Georg Dehio Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler Thuringia , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003 ISBN 3-422-03095-6 page 3
  2. ^ Building and community
  3. ^ Fire and reconstruction
  4. ↑ Current usage

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 7.9 ″  E