Synagogue (Kdyně)
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 25.6 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 13 ″ E
The synagogue in the small Czech town of Kdyně (German: Neugedein ) in Okres Domažlice in the Pilsen region was built in 1862/63. It has been a listed building since 1997. The synagogue is located at 12 Masaryk Street.
history
19th century to World War II
From 1862 to 1863 the Jewish community of Kdyně built a synagogue in neo-Romanesque style near the main square , which was financed by donations from the community members. The synagogue was officially opened on January 21, 1863 and in 1871 a plaque was placed with the names of the synagogue co-founders Isak Augstein, Eliáš Augstein, Eliáš Klauber, Israel Lewit, Michal Hahn, Lipman Klauber, Jakub Hutter, Markus Klauber, Josef Hutter and Simon Augstein.
After the First World War , the synagogue served as accommodation for Galician refugees.
After the Jewish community of Kdyně 1929 with the Jewish community of Klatovy was united, found in the synagogue Kdyně only on high holidays services instead, the last one in the 1936th
During the Second World War it served as a warehouse.
After the end of the Second World War to the present
In 1946 the church became the property of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church . Their proposal in the early 1960s to recognize the synagogue as a cultural monument was not approved.
It was not until 1993 that the Pilsen Monument Authority and then the Pilsen Jewish Community turned to the almost completely preserved synagogue at the suggestion of the Domažlice district , and they received great support from the Jewish Museum in Prague . The synagogue was sold in 1994 to a private owner who wanted to convert it into a beer pub. Eventually the Kdyně community bought back the synagogue and had it partially restored. In 1997 the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic declared the synagogue a national cultural monument at the suggestion of the Pilsen Monument Authority.
In 2015 there is a small museum on the local history and the history of the Jewish community in the synagogue building.
The rooms of the rabbinate and the Jewish school have been preserved in the outbuilding. There is now an information center there.
Furnishing
The synagogue in Kdyně is one of the best preserved monuments of Jewish architecture in the western part of Bohemia. Your entire interior is almost in its original condition. These include the original column construction, the wooden Torah shrine in the classical style with parts of the plastic decoration and painting, the composition of the floor made of colored plaster, partly stone, partly wood, the lectern , six benches in the hall, four benches on the gallery and the original Painting of the vault, the work of the painter Amerling from Domažlice. The original window frames, railing of the podium, candlesticks at the Torah shrine and chandeliers have not been preserved. The original cult objects from the Kdyner Synagogue are kept in the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Outbuildings
A one-story outbuilding was attached to the synagogue, with a Jewish school on the first floor. The rabbi lived and worked on the first floor. A mikveh was discovered and restored in the basement of the building .
literature
- Renata Klodnerová: Synagogy v Plzeňském kraji , diploma thesis, Charles University Prague, Hussite Theological Faculty, 2011, p. 81 and 82 online: http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/69344/
- František Houra: The story of the Jews in Kdyně and the surrounding area . In: Hugo Gold : The Jews and Jewish Community of Bohemia in Past and Present , Jüdischer Buch- und Kunst Verlag, Brünn-Prague 1934, pp. 437–446 (online in English: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bohemia /boh437.html )
- Ivana Šedivec: Mikve: fenomén židovské obřadnosti (poznámky k rituálním lázním v Čechách a na Moravě) (English: Mikveh: the phenomenon of Jewish solemity (notes about ritual baths in Bohemia and Moravia) ), 2014, Prague, Charles University Department of Ethnology, Rigorosumarbeit (Czech), online: https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/140617/
Web links
- Kdyně Jewish community
- The History of the Jews in Kdyně and the Surroundings
- Kdyně Synagogue (Czech)
- Features of the Kdyně synagogue (Czech)
- Jewish community Kdyně (Czech)
- Kdyně in the war years (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ↑ synagoga ÚSKP 11831 / 4-5097 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
- ↑ Renata Klodnerová: Synagogy v Plzeňském kraji , diploma thesis, Charles University Prague, Hussite Theological Faculty, 2011, pp. 81 and 82 online: http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/69344/
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Renata Klodnerová: Synagogy v Plzeňském kraji , diploma thesis, Charles University Prague, Hussite Theological Faculty, 2011, pp. 81 and 82 online: http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/69344/
- ↑ Renata Klodnerová: Synagogy v Plzeňském kraji , diploma thesis, Charles University Prague, Hussite Theological Faculty, 2011, pp. 81 and 82 online: http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/69344/
- ↑ Renata Klodnerová: Synagogy v Plzeňském kraji , diploma thesis, Charles University Prague, Hussite Theological Faculty, 2011, pp. 81 and 82 online: http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/69344/
- ↑ Ivana Šedivec: Mikve: fenomén židovské obřadnosti (poznámky k rituálním lázním v Čechách a na Moravě) (English: Mikveh: the phenomenon of Jewish solemity (notes about ritual baths in Bohemia and Moravia) ), 2014, Prague, Charles University , Department of Ethnology, Rigorosum Work (Czech), p. 70, online: https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/140617/
