Synagogue (Glogau)
The Glogau Synagogue (now in Polish Głogów) was a synagogue on Wingenstrasse (now Hugo Kołłątaj Street) in Glogau . The synagogue was an example of the synthesis of brick Gothic and Moorish forms and at the same time represented the Nordic variant of the oriental synagogue building style, which symbolized the self-confidence of the new middle class emancipated in 1871 .
description
The sacred building was built between 1891 and 1892 according to plans by the architect Jürgen Kröger as a high domed central building. The facade was adorned by a high portal that enclosed a rose window with the Magen David . The central building was architecturally assigned to eclecticism , whereby stylistic elements of the neo-Gothic or brick Gothic were combined with Moorish forms and forms of the neo-Renaissance . In the November pogrom of 1938 the synagogue was burned down. The ruins were later demolished. In the post-war period, the synagogue walls were rebuilt about one meter high on the foundations. In the middle of the resulting enclosure , a memorial column ( stele ) was set up on a paved square with the Magen David .
history
Well-known Glogau Jews were Hauerwitz, owner of the men's outfitter shop in Breslauer am Markt , Dr. Lindemann, pediatrician who was killed in the forest in the summer of 1934 as head of a Jewish scout group, Dr. Getzel, dermatologist and Dr. Jacobsohn, lawyer who was beaten up in his own home in the fall of 1934. An eyewitness reported that the Glogau synagogue was destroyed as an act that had been planned for a long time. On the way home from school, students had passed the synagogue on Wingenstrasse and saw the Glogau synagogue burning. After they had communicated the news to their classmates, they went out in small groups through a back exit at the pedell's apartment to look at the flaming sacred building of the Glogau Jewish community. Since the Glogau synagogue was right next to a hospital and was only separated from it by a fire wall, the Glogau fire brigade had already started taking fire protection measures for the hospital one day before the arson, according to the mother of another student who was in the hospital to meet. The North Silesian daily Nota, however, wrote of a spontaneous, emotional reason for the arson.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz R. Barran; Landsmannschaft Schlesien (editor). City Atlas Silesia. Rautenbergverlag. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8003-3052-0 , pp. 84-85
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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 44.7 " N , 16 ° 5 ′ 43.2" E