Synagogue (Georgensgmünd)
The synagogue in Georgensgmünd , a community in the Roth district in the Bavarian administrative district of Middle Franconia , was built between 1733 and 1735. The profaned synagogue with the address Am Anger 9 is a protected monument .
history
A former synagogue is said to have been destroyed during the Thirty Years' War . From 1681 a room in Hajum Bärman's house was used as a prayer room. This prayer room soon became too small for the increasing number of Jewish community members. Therefore, in 1729 the Jewish community acquired a building site on the outskirts of the village and built a synagogue there from 1733 to 1735 under the supervision of Elieser Lipman, as noted on his tombstone in the Jewish cemetery in Georgensgmünd . A chronogram in Hebrew script with the year (5) 494 can still be seen above the lintel of the synagogue . This corresponds to the Christian era in 1733/34. A steep staircase at the back of the prayer room leads to the mikveh .
The synagogue survived the November pogroms of 1938 unscathed as it had already been sold.
In 1988 the Georgensgmünd community acquired the synagogue building and had it extensively restored with the help of the district. The building can be visited after consultation with the municipality.
description
In 1836, the Jewish schoolhouse with a teacher's apartment was added at right angles to the synagogue. Before that, there was a small half-timbered house in the same place , which was built in 1733/35 as a residence for the cantor and Schochet . The synagogue made of regional sandstone has a gable made of plastered half-timbering. On the long sides, high rectangular windows illuminate the prayer room, which can be reached through the men's entrance from the small courtyard without an anteroom. The protrusion on the south-east wall shows the position of the Torah shrine from the outside . There are four small round windows above. The interior is vaulted by a segment barrel. In the first half of the 19th century, a women's gallery was installed on the rear gable side above the exit to the mikveh and the anteroom with stairs to the upper floor. The gallery was previously separated from the large prayer room of the men by a barred screen. During restoration work in 1988, the original wall painting from the time of construction was discovered under younger layers of paint . A larger painted area has been preserved on the southwest wall. Here, the Margrave Karl Wilhelm Friedrich and his wife Friederike Luise are paid homage in Hebrew script, adorned with plant motifs . The wall paintings in the synagogue are attributed to Eliezer Sussmann , who painted several synagogues in southern Germany.
Geniza
In 1987 a geniza was discovered in the roof of the synagogue . The finds (religious books, phylacteries , Torah cloaks , mezuzot , exercise books, etc.) are in the Georgensgmünd municipal archive.
literature
- Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: Synagogues in the rabbinical district of Schwabach . In: The Schwabach Rabbinical District . Ergon-Verlag , Würzburg 2009, ( Franconia Judaica , Vol. 4) ISBN 978-3-89913-788-0 , pp. 120-127.
- Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: Georgensgmünd . In: More than stones ... Synagogue Memorial Volume Bavaria. Volume II . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt, Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans-Christof Haas and Angela Hager with the assistance of Frank Purrmann and Axel Töllner with a contribution by Katrin Keßler. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-448-9 , pp. 334-349.
Web links
- Georgensgmünd synagogue near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
- Jewish history in Georgensgmünd. The former synagogue, the Jewish cemetery and the Tahara house. georgensgmuend.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 55.3 ″ E