Synagogue (Dörrebach)

Dörrebach synagogue
place	Dörrebach
Architectural style	Quarry stone construction on the gable
Construction year	circa 1858
demolition	1929

The synagogue in Dörrebach was built on Schlossstrasse in 1858. In 1929 it was demolished by the Jewish community.

synagogue

Even before the synagogue was built, there was a prayer room in a Jewish private house. But it had become too small for the growing Jewish community. In 1858 a synagogue was built in Schlossstrasse. It was a simple, unplastered quarry stone building with a gable roof. From around 1918/1920, the minyan needed to hold a church service was no longer reached and the synagogue was closed. In 1929 the building was demolished by the Jewish community because it was in disrepair.

Jewish community Dörrebach

Jews settled in the Dörrebach area as early as the 18th century. The number of Jewish community members increased by the middle of the 19th century. In 1858 the members of the Jewish community made up 10 percent of Dörrenbach's residents. The community had a Jewish school. The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Dörrebach until 1937 . Then at the Jewish cemetery in Seibersbach . From 1858 the number of Jewish residents began to decline. After the First World War , the Jewish community lost its independence due to the small number of members and was affiliated with the Seibersbach community and its members visited the synagogue there . From 1933, after the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler , the Jewish inhabitants were increasingly disenfranchised. In addition, there were repeated anti-Jewish actions. As a result, other Jewish residents left Dörrebach.

Development of the Jewish population

year	Jews	Jewish families	comment
1808	36
1843	51
1858	61		10 percent of the population
1895	39
1925	31		Jewish residents of Seibersbach and Dörrebach
1933	10
1939	3

Source: alemannia-judaica.de; jewische-gemeinden.de

The memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem list 14 members of the Dörrebach Jewish community (who were born there or lived there for a while) who were during the time of National Socialism were murdered.

literature

• 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. ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany , 2). Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , p. 140.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Dörrebach (VG Stromberg, Bad Kreuznach district) . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Dörrebach (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
3. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
4. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved May 10, 2020.