Synagogue (Hachenburg)

Postcard from Hachenburg with the synagogue (around 1920)

Former synagogue in Hachenburg

The synagogue in Hachenburg , a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate , was built in 1896/97. The secular synagogue is located at Alexanderring 6.

history

The Jewish community initially had a prayer room in a Jewish private house on Judengasse . Since the prayer room had become too small for the Jewish community of Hachenburg , they acquired a building site at Alexanderring 6 in the former moat of the city wall around 1890 . The architect Ludwig Hofmann (1862–1933) from Herborn designed the plans for the new synagogue. The foundation stone was laid on July 3, 1896 and the inauguration took place on June 11 and 12, 1897.

National Socialist Persecution

During the November pogrom in 1938 , the interior of the synagogue was destroyed and the police confiscated the ritual objects. These included 16 Torah scrolls , 9 cult objects and two parchment scrolls. During the Second World War the synagogue was used as an air raid school.

Todays use

After 1945 the synagogue in Hachenburg was transferred back to the Jewish community of Koblenz , which sold the building. It was initially used as a vocational school and then converted into a shop, which is still there today.

literature

Joachim Jösch, Uli Jungbluth u. a. (Ed.): Jews in the Westerwald. Life, suffering and remembrance. A guide to the search for clues . Montabaur 1998.
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. 177-176 ( Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany 2).