Synagogue (Kreuzburg)

Kreuzburg synagogue

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 19.3 ″  N , 18 ° 13 ′ 6.7 ″  E

Synagogue (Kreuzburg)​

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The Old Synagogue Kreuzburg was a synagogue in Kreuzburg , on the southeastern edge of the old town, on Oppelner Straße, confluence with the Promenade.

history

The sacred building, completed in the Moorish - Neo-Romanesque style in 1886 according to plans by the district architect Friedrich, was inaugurated by Rabbi Ferdinand Rosenthal on September 15 of the same year.

On November 10, 1938, the synagogue was set on fire by SA people during the November pogroms . The fire brigade only protected the adjacent houses on Oppelner Strasse. A few days after the fire, the remaining walls were torn down and the members of the Jewish community were deported . Eyewitness Ottfried Willhardt said: “On the first floor of the synagogue, I saw an SA man smashing wooden objects with an ax at a window and throwing them into the flames ... But the firemen, balancing on the roof ridges, sprayed from the long ones Only hose the roofs of the neighboring houses from Oppelner Strasse. "

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945

Web links

Commons : Synagoge (Kreuzburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Horst Fuhrmann : The inauguration of the Kreuzburg synagogue in 1886 . Oberschlesisches Jahrbuch 7, 1991, pp. 157–162
• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pharus plan - sheet Kreuzburg / OS (around 1930).
2. ↑ http://www.steinheim-institut.de/%5Bd2g%5D/24683.xml  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.heimatkreis-kreuzburg-os.de/beta/index.php?pageID=2
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 20, 2014 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.