Synagogue (Bezdružice)

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '22.1 "  N , 12 ° 58' 22.9"  E

Synagogue (Bezdružice)​

Czech Republic

Synagogue in Bezdružice

The synagogue in Bezdružice (German Weseritz ), a town in Okres Tachov in the Czech Republic , was built in 1812. The secular synagogue , which is now privately owned, has been a protected cultural monument since 2008 . It was used as a storage room for decades. The women's gallery is still there and the remains of paintings and stucco decorations can still be seen.

Geniza

In 1996 a geniza was found under the rafters above the vault, which is now in the Jewish Museum in Prague . The geniza consists mainly of printed books and notebooks written in Hebrew .

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online edition ).
• Ingild Janda-Busl , Franz Busl : The history of the Jewish community in Weseritz / Bezdružice (= Otnant society for history and culture in the Euregio Egrensis. Sources and discussions. Volume 5). Verlag der Buchhandlung Eckhard Bodner, Pressath 2006, ISBN 3-937117-38-5 .

Web links

• Description (accessed January 24, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 103415 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
2. ↑ Ingild Janda-Busl, Franz Busl: The history of the Jewish community in Weseritz / Bezdružice. Pp. 345-358.