Synagogue (Biala)

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 19.2 ″  N , 19 ° 3 ′ 36 ″  E

Synagogue (Biala)​

Poland

Synagogue in Biala

The synagogue in Kunzendorf (Lipnik in Polish) and in Biala ( Biała in Polish ), a district of Bielsko-Biała in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland , was built in 1889 and destroyed by the German occupiers on September 14, 1939 .

The synagogue was built according to the plans of the architect Karl Korn from Bielitz , who also built the synagogue in Bielitz , for the Jewish community Biała-Lipnik (based in Lipnik, from 1902 in Biala), in the neo-Romanesque - orientalizing style. It was located in the western part of the village Lipnik / Kunzendorf, on the main artery, on Kaiserweg (also Wiener Haupt Comercial Strasse ), which led towards Lemberg . In 1900 there were 1918 Jews in the judicial district of Biala , of which 1,088 (13.2% of the urban population) were in Biala and 508 in Lipnik. Jewish society was divided between the liberal (often of Western origin, almost completely Germanized - German-speaking) and the Orthodox and Hasidic (from Galicia, called "Polish Jews" by liberals, often speaking Yiddish with poor knowledge of the Polish language). The “temple” was thus dominated by liberal Jews, whereas the Orthodox Jews had two private synagogues. The first rabbi was Nathan Glaser . In 1925 Lipnik / Kunzendorf was incorporated into Biala. In December 1939 there were around 4,660 Jews in the occupied city of Biala.

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 ).
• Jerzy Polak, Piotr Kenig: Bielsko-Biała. Monografia miasta . Biała od zarania do zakończenia I wojny światowej (1918). 2nd Edition. tape II. . Wydział Kultury i Sztuki Urzędu Miejskiego w Bielsku-Białej, Bielsko-Biała 2011, ISBN 978-83-60136-36-2 (Polish).

Web links

Commons : Synagogue (Biala)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Virtual Shtetl (accessed November 23, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907 ( online ).
2. ↑ Bielsko-Biała, Monografia miasta, 2011, Volume IV, pp. 404–405.
3. ↑ Bielsko-Biała, Monografia miasta, 2011, Volume IV, p. 376.