Synagogue "Temple of Peace" Halensee

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Relief of the synagogue "Temple of Peace" Halensee

The Halensee "Temple of Peace" synagogue was a synagogue for Jewish believers in the area of ​​today's Berlin district of Halensee . It was located on the property at Markgraf-Albrecht-Straße 11/12 not far from Kurfürstendamm . Fires started by the National Socialists during the November pogroms in 1938 caused severe fire damage to the synagogue. In 1959 it was demolished.

history

Memorial plaque on the house at Markgraf-Albrecht-Strasse 11 in Berlin-Halensee

The owner of the Lunapark am Halensee , Salomon Goldberg , wanted to bring his father Eduard Goldberg, who was active as a cantor in the province of Posen , to Berlin. For this he planned the construction of a house of prayer, in which the father should have worked as a cantor. In 1922, Goldberg acquired arable land on Markgraf-Albrecht-Strasse, a cross street of Kurfürstendamm, as building land.

At the same time, there was an effort among the Jewish population of Halensee and the surrounding area at that time to build a synagogue in which worship was to be held according to a liberal rite .

Despite the sudden death of Eduard Goldberg, Salomon Goldberg supported and financed the plans to build a new synagogue. In 1923 the synagogue association "Temple of Peace" was founded and Goldberg became its chairman. The Synagogue Association had the new synagogue built by G. & C. Gause . In the center of the architecturally unadorned building was a simple hall with a high central room. In the area of ​​the ceiling transition, all-round ogival windows formed an upper end of the room. On the east side of the room were the organ and Torah shrine . This area was more finely structured by pilaster strips . The synagogue offered space for 1,450 believers, who, as was still customary at the time, sat separated by sex. There were 864 places for men and 586 for women. The inauguration of the synagogue took place on September 9, 1923 at the same time as the inauguration of the Grunewald synagogue . Goldberg said in his inauguration speech: “The temple should not only serve religious purposes, but also be a meeting place for all who want to work towards real peace.” A plaque was placed on the facade: “The 'Temple of Peace' became built in memory of our godly parents Eduard and Sara Goldberg, Jakob and Marie Altmann. Berlin-Wilmersdorf, September 9, 1923. Goldberg family, Altmann family ”. Jakob and Marie Altmann were Salomon Goldberg's in-laws.

The rite of the service is supposed to have been a kind of mixture of liberal and orthodox rite, i.e. an orthodox service with a mixed choir and organ accompaniment. In addition, a purely Orthodox church service was offered in an outbuilding on weekdays and on the Sabbath .

After Goldberg ran into financial difficulties in 1928 and the Synagogue Association was unable to continue operations on its own, the Berlin Jewish Community acquired the synagogue on May 2, 1929 and ran it from then on as a community synagogue. The rabbis here included Benno Gottschalk and Joachim Prinz , and the community rabbi was Ignaz Maybaum .

During the Reichspogromnacht from November 9th to 10th, 1938, the National Socialists also set fires in the Halensee synagogue "Temple of Peace", which led to severe fire damage.

In 1959 the ruins of the synagogue were demolished and replaced by residential buildings. A memorial plaque was unveiled on November 9, 1988.

See also

literature

  • Berlin Museum (Hrsg.): Synagogues in Berlin - On the history of a destroyed architecture. Part 2: The Association Synagogues. Arenhövel, Berlin 1983, pp. 41–43, ISBN 3-922912-04-4 (catalog for the exhibition: Synagogues in Berlin ).
  • Raimund Wolfert : The Goldbergs. Between the Temple of Peace, Lunapark and the House of the Fashion Industry . Published by the Centrum Judaicum . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-088-9 (= Jewish miniatures, volume 164).

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Harold Hammer-Schenk : Synagogues in Germany. History of a building type in the 19th and 20th centuries (1780–1933). Christians, Hamburg 1981, p. 513.
  2. ^ Max Sinasohn: The Berlin private synagogues and their rabbis 1671–1971. In memory of the 300th anniversary of the Berlin Jewish Community. Self-published, Jerusalem 1971, p. 81.
  3. ↑ Berlin.de.
  4. ↑ luise-berlin.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 59.1 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 55.8 ″  E