Synagogue (Schopfloch)

Postcard from 1907 with the synagogue

Enlargement of the synagogue

The synagogue in Schopfloch , a market in the Ansbach district in Middle Franconia ( Bavaria ), was built in 1877. The synagogue that stood at today's Bahnhofstrasse 5 was demolished in 1939.

history

Due to the political conditions of the 17th and 18th centuries, through which Schopfloch was divided into two manors , two Jewish communities emerged in the place . In 1679 the first synagogue for the Jews of both lords was built in the Oettingian part with financial participation from the margravial Jews . In 1877 this synagogue building in what was then Judengasse (renamed Bahnhofstraße in 1881 with the consent of the Jewish residents) was demolished and a new building was erected. In 1932 the building was renovated.

time of the nationalsocialism

The synagogue was sold after most of the Jewish community members left in the summer of 1938. The rituals came to Munich in August 1938, where they were destroyed in the November 1938 pogrom. The synagogue in Schopfloch was set on fire during the November pogrom in 1938, but the fire was extinguished by the fire brigade. In the spring of 1939, the interior was destroyed and the synagogue building was demolished a little later.

description

The free-standing building made of sandstone masonry was 13.45 m long and 9.60 m wide. The street-side facade had three high arched windows with profiled walls . In the gable field there was a round window, the gable was crowned by the tablets of the law . The middle window was integrated into a risalit with a small gable roof . Inside, slender columns supported the three-sided women's gallery .

Commemoration

A memorial stone in front of the Bahnhofstrasse 5 building commemorates the destroyed synagogue.

literature

Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).
Barbara Eberhardt and Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: Schopfloch . In: More than stones ... Synagogue Memorial Volume Bavaria. Volume II . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt, Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans-Christof Haas and Angela Hager with the assistance of Frank Purrmann and Axel Töllner with a contribution by Katrin Keßler. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-448-9 , pp. 597-613.
Gunther Reese (ed.): Traces of Jewish life around the Hesselberg. Volume 6 of the small series of publications Region Hesselberg, Unterschwaningen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9808482-2-0 , pp. 88–93.