Synagogue (Niedermendig)

Postcard with the synagogue (far right) in Niedermendig (around 1920)

The synagogue in Niedermendig , a district of Mendig in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Mayen-Koblenz , was built in 1851 and destroyed in the November pogrom in 1938 . The synagogue was located at 4 Wollstrasse below the Catholic parish church of St. Cyriakus .

The historicist synagogue was built according to plans by the Niedermendig-based architect Peter Schmitz and was inaugurated on August 20, 1886. It was a quarry stone building made of local basalt and tuff stone .

time of the nationalsocialism

The synagogue was destroyed during the November pogrom in 1938 .

Today there is a small park with a memorial stone in memory of the synagogue on the property.

See also

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

literature

• "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Edited by Stefan Fischbach u. a., ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate u. a., Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 268–269 (Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany, Vol. 2).

Web links

• Synagogue in Niedermendig near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 19.3 "  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 35.3"  E