Synagogue (Bad Godesberg)

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Information and memorial plaques at the former location of the synagogue (2019)

The synagogue in Bad Godesberg (until 1925 Godesberg ), a modern district of Bonn , was built in 1849-50 and 1938, destroyed by the Nazis. It was located on Oststrasse (until 1892 Synagogengasse ) in the center of Godesberg .

Individual Jewish families can be identified in Godesberg since the 17th century. A prayer room in a private house had been used by the Jewish community since 1812 at the latest , before their own simple synagogue building was built in what was then Judengasse in 1849/50. The property for its construction was donated by Abraham Leudesdorf, a Jewish butcher and later member of the Godesberg municipal council. The synagogue was inaugurated in August 1850. It was a single-storey building with a gable roof , a 42 m² interior with 90 seats and a women's gallery , an anteroom with the entrance on the west and an extension for the Torah shrine on the East side and protruded in a closely built-up area over the (later determined) line of flight. In 1885 the synagogue community submitted an application for the installation of a chimney, and in 1902 they received a building permit for an enclosure of the property , which was partially provided with iron bars .

In the course of the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was destroyed by arson on the afternoon of November 10, and the remains were removed in 1939. Since September 4, 1985, on the south side of Oststraße, attached to the rear wall of the property at Koblenzer Straße 23, a memorial plaque has been commemorating the former synagogue. Only a few views and drawings of the building have survived; Its former location (former address: Oststraße 7) is in the rear area of ​​today's property at Koblenzer Straße 19-21.

literature

  • Hans Kleinpass: On the history of the former synagogues in Godesberg and Mehlem . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Volume 25 (1987), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 1988, pp. 146–173.
  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district (= contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 34.1). Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 , pp. 486-488.
  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 . ( jewische-gemeinden.de ).

Web links

Commons : Synagogue  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
  2. ^ Address book for Godesberg, Plittersdorf and Rüngsdorf along with a street sketch . Verlag von Emil Strauss, Godesberg 1890, p. 41. ( online )
  3. ↑ Hans Kleinpass: On the history of the former synagogues in Godesberg and Mehlem . P. 146.
  4. ↑ epidat - epigraphic database: Avraham Ben David Leudesdorf , Steinheim Institute
  5. ↑ Hans Kleinpass: On the history of the former synagogues in Godesberg and Mehlem . P. 149, note p. 171.
  6. ^ A b Information board ( Wikimedia Commons ) of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV
  7. ↑ Michael Brocke , Meier Schwarz (ed.): Fire put on your sanctuary: destroyed synagogues 1938 North Rhine-Westphalia . Developed by the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History . Verlag Kamp, Bochum 1999, ISBN 3-89709-200-X , p. 23.
  8. ^ A b Hans Kleinpass: On the history of the former synagogues in Godesberg and Mehlem . Pp. 152-154.
  9. ↑ Hans Kleinpass: On the history of the former synagogues in Godesberg and Mehlem . P. 163/164.
  10. ↑ Martin Stankowski , Ulrike Puvogel: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein (= memorials to the victims of National Socialism. Volume 1). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 502.
  11. ↑ Hans Kleinpass: On the history of the former synagogues in Godesberg and Mehlem . P. 165.
  12. ↑ The old photo probably shows the Godesberg synagogue that burned down , General-Anzeiger , November 7, 2017
  13. ^ Resident register of the mayor's office in Godesberg 1927/28 . Printed and published by Jean Schneider, Godesberg 1927, p. 101. ( online )
  14. ↑ Hans Kleinpass: On the history of the former synagogues in Godesberg and Mehlem . P. 152.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 7.9 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 15 ″  E