Synagogue (Gelsdorf)

Former synagogue in Gelsdorf, recognizable by the walled-up windows

The synagogue in Gelsdorf , a district of the Grafschaft municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler , was built in 1861/62. The secular synagogue is at 48 Bonner Strasse.

history

Initially, the Jewish community in Gelsdorf had a prayer room in a private house.

In 1861 the Jewish community was able to buy the middle part of the left-hand outer bailey of the castle in Gelsdorf , which had been used as a coach house, and convert it into a synagogue, which was inaugurated on June 13, 1862.

Already in the period after the First World War , the number of Jewish community members had decreased so much that regular services could no longer be held because a minyan could no longer be held . The synagogue was no longer used and fell into disrepair.

During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue building in the castle was saved from destruction. In 1939 a master mason from Gelsdorf bought the synagogue building from the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities and converted it into an apartment for his own use.

literature

• Ottmar Prothmann: The community Grafschaft. In: Evidence of Jewish life in the Ahrweiler district , published by Hans Warnecke, ARE Verlag, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998, ISBN 3-929154-23-4 , pp. 55–73.
• 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 , pp. 170–171 ( memorial book of the synagogues in Germany 2).

Web links

• Synagogue in Gelsdorf near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 9.9 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 59.9 ″  E