Synagogue (Horb am Main)

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The synagogue in Horb am Main , a district of Marktzeuln in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels ( Bavaria ), was probably built at the beginning of the 18th century.

history

The Horber Synagogue was set up on the upper floor of a half-timbered house by 1730 at the latest . In 1864 the synagogue building was sold to a brewery after the Jewish community had become so small due to the departure of its members that church services (see Minjan ) could no longer be held. After that, the building was used as a warehouse for several decades.

In 1909 Pastor Heinrich Pöhlmann from Küps rediscovered the former synagogue. He tried to save this art-historically valuable gem. With the help of Rabbis Adolf Eckstein from Bamberg and Eduard Gotein from Burgkunstadt , the demolition of the building was prevented. The Kommerzienrat Max Gutmann from Bamberg acquired the equipment and donated it to the city of Bamberg's collection of paintings on December 1, 1913 . Some of the painted wooden parts were set up in the staircase of the picture gallery, everything else was stored.

In the 1960s it was decided to make the original available on permanent loan to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and to show a model of the former synagogue in the Historical Museum in Bamberg.

Not all parts have been preserved, e.g. B. the room of the women's synagogue with the wooden lattice. In 1968, a separate room for the Horber Synagogue was designed in the Israel Museum.

Painting by Eliezer Sussmann

The synagogue in Horb is famous for the wall paintings made between 1733 and 1735 by Eliezer Sussmann , son of the cantor Schlomo Katz from Brody , which have been on display in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem since 1968 . On August 6, 1735, Eliezer Sussmann had finished his work. In the middle medallion on the east wall of the prayer room he left the inscription: “And all the work that Eliezer, son of Schlomo Katz, has done in the church is finished. And his wife Rela, the daughter of Jonah. On the third day of the month of Aw in the year 495 ”.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 ( jewische-gemeinden.de ).
  • Erich Toeplitz: The paintings in the synagogues (especially in Franconia) . In: Habrith-Verlags-Gesellschaft (ed.): Menorah . No. 11/1928 . Habrith-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Vienna November 1928, p. 687-696 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 24.7 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 58.5 ″  E