Synagogue (Bitburg)

Synagogue in Rautenbergstrasse

The synagogue in Bitburg , the district town of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate , was built in 1877. The synagogue , standing a little higher on a fenced-in property, was located on Rautenbergstrasse.

History and description

Synagogue in a model

After the number of Jewish families in Bitburg increased, the Jewish community could think of building a synagogue. The foundation stone was laid on April 13, 1877. The synagogue in neo-Romanesque style with arched windows was divided by pilaster strips . On the east side, a round arch was fries with an apse-like Toranische . District architect Peter Josef Julius Wolff had drawn up the plan in a disinterested way and waived any fee.

The synagogue was devastated during the November pogrom in 1938 . The building remained and was destroyed in a bombing raid on Christmas 1944. The ruin was demolished in 1952.

Today there is a gas station with a plaque on the synagogue property . A model of the synagogue is in the Bitburg-Prüm District Museum .

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).
• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 ( memorial book of the synagogues in Germany 2).

Web links

Commons : Synagogue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bitburg synagogue near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 23.3 "  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 16.1"  E