Synagogue (Beuel)

Synagogue in Beuel, around 1903

memorial

The synagogue in Beuel , a district of Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia , was built in 1903 and was located at today's intersection of Siegfried-Leopold- and Friedrich-Friesen-Straße.

history

Around 1800 the Jewish community of Beuel built a synagogue in the area of today's Siegfried-Leopold-Strasse and Friedrich-Friesen-Strasse. In 1854 the Beuel Jews were given the status of a special community within the Bonn synagogue community; the synagogue association with Bonn was dissolved in 1875. The size of the Jewish community was 120 in 1828, 182 in 1885 and 130 in 1932.

Since the synagogue had become too small, a new synagogue was built in 1903 at the same location, but with a neighboring plot of land , based on the plans of the master builder Johann Adam Rüppel . On August 28 and 29, 1903, the inauguration took place by the Bonn rabbi Elias Kalischer .

During the pogrom on November 9, 1938 , the synagogue was set on fire and destroyed.

architecture

The synagogue in Beuel was a neo-Romanesque central building made of yellow brick with a high central dome with a lantern and an onion dome . In the middle of the facade, the former Wilhelm street, a porch with was gables that a stairs fries graced. This porch was flanked by two low, narrow extensions, in which the entrances for men and women were. The skylights of the entrances were designed in a horseshoe shape . In the middle risalit there was a group of windows made up of three narrow high windows with round arches , the middle window towering over the others.

The inside of the dome was painted as a firmament and the Torah shrine could not be set up exactly opposite the entrance due to the location of the property.

Commemoration

In 1962, the city council of the then city of Beuel installed a memorial plaque on the site of the former synagogue. In 1988, when the former synagogue was redesigned, a brick memorial was erected from the former synagogue.

literature

Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district . Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 , pp. 480-481 (contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.1).

Web links

Commons : Synagoge Beuel (Bonn) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on Jewish cemetery Gensemerstraße in Schwarzrheindorf (Judenfriedhof Beuel) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 3, 2017.

50.738688 7.121115Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 19.3 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 16 ″ E

[1] Entry on Jewish cemetery Gensemerstraße in Schwarzrheindorf (Judenfriedhof Beuel) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 3, 2017.