Synagogue (Waldlaubersheim)

Waldlaubersheim synagogue
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place	Waldlaubersheim
Client	Waldlaubersheim Jewish Community
Architectural style	Quarry stone construction
Construction year	1853
Coordinates	49 ° 55 '42.2 "  N , 7 ° 49' 58"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '42.2 "  N , 7 ° 49' 58"  E

The synagogue in Waldlaubersheim was built next to the building at Binger Straße 16 in 1853. The synagogue was given up in 1918 and sold to a private person in 1920. In the following years it was sold several times and used for different purposes. Since the last change of ownership in 1991, it has been used as a storage room and garage. The former synagogue is now a listed building.

synagogue

Until 1853, the Jewish inhabitants had neither their own synagogue nor a prayer room. Until then, the Jewish community members had visited the synagogue in Windesheim . In 1853 the synagogue was built next to the building at Binger Strasse 16. It was a quarry stone building with a gable roof. There were two arched windows on the east side. The entrance was on the west side. There was an arched window each to the right and left of the entrance and above. The entrance portal is no longer there today, as it was replaced by a large gate in the course of the renovation work to the warehouse and garage in the years up to 1991. Of the arched windows on the west side of the building, only the right one and the one above the portal only the brick arched arch remains. The synagogue was abandoned in 1918 and sold in 1920 after the minyan , which was needed to hold the service, was no longer available. In the following decades, the building changed hands several times and was used as a stable, barn and warehouse. The last owner converted the former synagogue into a warehouse with a garage in 1991. The building is now a listed building. In 2006 the community put an information sign on the building about the history of the synagogue.

Waldlaubersheim Jewish Community

Jews who settled in the Waldlaubersheim area were first mentioned in 1740. Until the establishment of an independent synagogue community in 1853, the Jewish inhabitants belonged to the synagogue community in Windesheim . The membership of the Jewish community increased by the middle of the 19th century. It is not known whether the community had a mikveh . There was a religious school, but no teachers of their own were employed. The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Waldlaubersheim. At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of members of the Jewish community continued to decline. In 1918 the synagogue had to be given up and the parishioners again belonged to the Windesheim synagogue parish. In 1920 the building was sold. From 1933, after the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler , the Jewish inhabitants were increasingly disenfranchised. In addition, there were repeated anti-Jewish actions that culminated in the November pogroms in 1938. As a result, many Jewish families left the community. In 1939 the last Jewish residents emigrated.

Development of the Jewish population

year	Jews	Jewish families	comment
1796	15th	3
1808	16
1843	29
1858	27
1895	28
1925	8th

Source: alemannia-judaica.de; waldlaubersheim.de

Holocaust victim

In the memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and in the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem , the following members of the Waldlaubersheim Jewish Community (who were born there or lived temporarily) are listed who were born during the time of Nazism were murdered:

Surname	First name	Time of death	Age	Place of death	comment	swell
Marx	Erna	March 26, 1943	43 years	Sobibor extermination camp	Emigrated to the Netherlands . Deportation on March 23, 1943 from the Westerbork transit camp to the Sobibor extermination camp.	Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11589621) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Mattes	Gottschalk	November 25, 1941	68 years	Fort IX Kovno	Deported on November 22, 1941 from Frankfurt am Main to Fort IX Kovno.	Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11590330) / memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Mayer	Ida	unknown (pronounced dead)	unknown	unknown	Deportation on April 1942 from Langenlonsheim. Destination unknown.	Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11591020) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Meyer	Charlotte	unknown	unknown	Treblinka extermination camp	Deportation on July 25, 1942 from Aachen to Ghetto Theresienstadt (Transport VII / 2, train Da 71. Deportation number on train 746). On September 21, 1942 deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp (Transport Bp. Deportation number on the train 1271).	Yad Vashem (database, data set No. 4908156) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany

literature

• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany , 2). Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , p. 378.
• Dirk Taubenheim: The history of the synagogue communities of Rümmelsheim and Waldlaubersheim. Origin, development and dissolution. In: Sachor. Contributions to Jewish history and memorial work in Rhineland-Palatinate. (= Sachor. Contributions to Jewish history and memorial work in Rhineland-Palatinate. 2/97 issue 14). Verlag Matthias Ess, Bad Kreuznach 1995, pp. 56-57. ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Waldlaubersheim . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Windesheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b} The former synagogue . waldlaubersheim.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
4. ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments (Bad Kreuznach) (PDF) General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate. P. 112. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
5. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
6. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved May 22, 2020.