Synagogue (Windesheim)

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Windesheim synagogue
place Windesheim
Architectural style Gable-independent plaster construction
Construction year approx. 2nd half of the 19th century
demolition 1982
Coordinates 49 ° 54 '13.6 "  N , 7 ° 49' 7.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '13.6 "  N , 7 ° 49' 7.3"  E
Windesheim Synagogue (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Windesheim synagogue

The synagogue in Windesheim was built in the second half of the 19th century at Waldhilbersheimer Straße 18. The synagogue was devastated during the November pogroms in 1938 . In November 1938 the forced sale to a private individual took place. In 1982 the synagogue was demolished due to its dilapidation.

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Even before the mid-19th century there was a prayer room that was housed in a private house. In the middle of the 19th century the synagogue was built at Waldhilbersheimer Straße 18. It was a gable-facing plastered building . In the north wall facing the street, the building had two large arched windows and a circular window in the center of the gable. The entrance was on the west side of the building. The synagogue had a women's gallery . The interior of the synagogue was devastated during the November pogroms in 1938. On November 29, 1938, the Jewish community was forced to sell the synagogue to a private individual for RM 2,100 . In the summer of 1982, the responsible lower monument protection authority of the Bad Kreuznach district sought to classify the synagogue as an architectural monument . In December 1982, the shared Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Langenlonsheim with the authority that in trying renovations, the synagogue was demolished due to disrepair.

Windesheim Jewish Community

The number of Jewish community members remained more or less constant from the middle of the 19th century to the 1920s. The community had a religious school. It is not known whether the community had its own mikveh or whether a teacher was employed. The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Windesheim. 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. The last Jewish residents were deported in 1942.

Development of the Jewish population

year Jews Jewish families comment
1808 14th
1843 32
1858 35
1895 38
1895 43
1925 32
1933 30th
1939 5

Source: alemannia-judaica.de; jewische-gemeinden.de

The Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem list 22 members of the Windesheim Jewish community (who were born there or lived there temporarily) who were during the time of National Socialism were murdered.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Windesheim (VG Langenlonsheim, Bad Kreuznach district) . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Windesheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ 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. 388.
  4. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  5. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved May 22, 2020.