Synagogue (Remagen)

Former synagogue in Remagen, 1905

The synagogue in Remagen , a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler , was built in 1869. It was on the corner of Grabenstrasse and Schmiedegang.

history

The Jewish community in Remagen initially had a prayer room on the ground floor of a house on the corner of Bachstrasse and Kirchstrasse. After the number of Jewish community members increased in the middle of the 19th century, the community planned to build a synagogue. After a collection from the Jews in the Prussian Rhine Province and a promised grant from the city of Remagen of 50 thalers , construction could begin in 1865. The inauguration took place on 20./21. August 1869.

time of the nationalsocialism

During the pogrom on November 10, 1938 , the synagogue was devastated and set on fire by SS men from Bad Neuenahr and Ahrweiler . The Jewish community sold the ruins on May 9, 1939 to the post office in Koblenz. After 1945 the ruins were demolished and a parking lot was created. A memorial plaque on the opposite side of the street has been commemorating the synagogue since 1989.

See also

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

literature

• Michael Schmitz: Remagen. In: Evidence of Jewish life in the Ahrweiler district , ed. v. Hans Warnecke, ARE Verlag, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998, ISBN 3-929154-23-4 , pp. 129-145.
• "... 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. 317-318 (Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany, Vol. 2).

Web links

Commons : Synagoge (Remagen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Synagogue in Remagen near Alemannia Judaica
• Heinz Kleinpass: The inauguration of the synagogue in Remagen in 1869

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 45.1 ″  E