Synagogue (Beuern)

Synagogue in Beuern (center)

The synagogue in Beuern , a district of the Buseck community in the Gießen district in Hesse , was built around 1855. The profaned synagogue at Untergasse 17 is a protected monument .

history

A new synagogue was built around 1855 on the foundation walls of the previous building that had burned down. The high, single - storey half-timbered building with a gable roof facing east-west stands on a stone base. Two high trapezoidal arch windows give light to the interior.

The interior of the synagogue was destroyed during the November pogrom in 1938 . The building came into the possession of a neighboring property between 1938 and 1940 and was now used as a barn. At the beginning of the 1980s, a mezzanine was built.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
• Untergasse 17, Former Synagogue. In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , pp. 56-57.

Web links

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

• Description at Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 23.2 ″  E