Synagogue (Poppelsdorf)

Postcard with the synagogue in Poppelsdorf (around 1905)

The synagogue in Poppelsdorf , a district of Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia , was built in 1901/02 and was located at the intersection of Bennauerstraße and Jagdweg.

The synagogue was built according to plans by the Bonn architect Wilhelm Weinreis (1872-1906) in the Moorish style. The model was the Bonn synagogue from 1878/79 . The inauguration took place in May 1902. The synagogue offered around 100 men and 65 women on the gallery .

time of the nationalsocialism

On November 10, 1938 , violent National Socialists set the synagogue on fire; the interior was doused with gasoline and set on fire. The building burned down and the ruins were demolished six months later.

Commemoration

The inscription on the memorial stone erected in 1963 reads: “The Poppelsdorf synagogue stood at this point. It was built in 1902 and destroyed in the National Socialist acts of violence against our citizens on November 9, 1938. "

On November 9, 1988, a memorial in the form of a steel menorah was erected next to the memorial stone at the site of the synagogue .

Memorial stone and menorah

Web links

Commons : Synagogue - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 . ( Online edition )
Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district . Cologne 1997, (Contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, Vol. 34.1), ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 . [not evaluated]
Harold Hammer-Schenk : The architecture of the synagogue 1870–1933 . In: Hans-Peter Schwarz (ed.): The architecture of the synagogue , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-76272-8 , pp. 157–286 (here: pp. 242–244). [not evaluated]

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Gussone, Martina Müller-Wiener: Das Mausoleum Dr. George Guier in Bad Godesberg and Orientalism . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Issue 48 (2010), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2011, pp. 78-95 (here: p. 82 ).

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[1] Martin Gussone, Martina Müller-Wiener: Das Mausoleum Dr. George Guier in Bad Godesberg and Orientalism . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Issue 48 (2010), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2011, pp. 78-95 (here: p. 82 ).