Synagogue (Mladá Boleslav)

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Torah shrine inside (1905)

The synagogue in Mladá Boleslav (German Jungbunzlau), a town in the Central Bohemian region of Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic , was first mentioned in 1579 and existed - with one or more interruptions - until 1962 when it was demolished.

history

The eventful history of the synagogue in Mladá Boleslav, which was often damaged or burned out, is only contradictingly documented. The most likely reason can be taken to be the events of the Thirty Years' War , which apparently did not lead to damage in the city or the Jewish quarter, but also to the destruction of many sources and records. The existing secondary literature contains many gaps. The following historical course of the synagogue can be reconstructed from the available sources:

  • In some sources the year 1579 is mentioned as the possible year the synagogue was founded, whereby the assumption emerges that it is merely a prayer house as a forerunner of the actual synagogue from 1590.
  • The actual year of construction of the synagogue is assumed to be 1590, proven in the sources to be in writing and formulated with the addition "graciously built with the support of Emperor Rudolph".
  • In 1644 there are also reports of a "new one"; Here, however, the assumption is made in the secondary sources that it may have been a new building as a result of an unknown or documented destruction of the synagogue as a result of the Thirty Years War.
  • Two sources report on the destruction of the synagogue at the end of the 17th century; In this context, a new synagogue is mentioned in 1697.
  • The destruction of the synagogue by a large fire in 1761 is also reported.
  • A new construction of the synagogue is also mentioned in 1785.
  • In 1859 a major fire destroyed the city center, but the synagogue was only partially damaged.

In 1938 various ritual objects were transferred to the central Jewish Museum in Prague. During the 2nd World War the synagogue was used as a warehouse. Few Jews returned from concentration camps after the war; a lasting revival of the Jewish community failed. The synagogue was demolished in 1962 because plans to rebuild or continue to use it in the 1960s failed due to the desolate condition of the building.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e AE Goldmann: Dějiny Židů v Mladé Boleslavi / History of the Jews in Jungbunzlau , in: Hugo Gold: The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present , Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brno / Prague 1934, p. 204 –222, online (digitized at the Upper Austria Regional Library) at: digi.landesbibliothek.at / ...
  2. ↑ a b c Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of Jewish communities in the German-speaking area , 3 volumes, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 , keyword Jungbunzlau (Bohemia) , online at: Jewish-communities. de / ...
  3. ↑ a b c d Mlada Boleslav , report by The Museum of The Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot (Tel Aviv), online at: dbs.bh.org.il / ...
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Pavel Frýda: Mladá Boleslav-synagoga (Jungbunzlau Synagogue) - Stručně k historii židovské komunity v Mladé Boleslavi , Portal Zaniklé obce a objekty / Disappeared places and objects, online at: zanikleobce.cz/
  5. ↑ Jiří Fiedler: Židovské památky v Čechách a na Moravě , keyword Mladá Boleslav , online at: holocaust.cz / ...
  6. ↑ Michaela Kopecká: Historie Židů na Mladoboleslavsku , Technická univerzita, Liberec 2011, page 22, online at: dspace.tul.cz / ...

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