Synagogue (Bonn)

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The synagogue in the Bonn district of Gronau was built in 1958/59. It is located on Tempelstrasse (house numbers 2-4) on the northern edge of the federal quarter , immediately south of the Foreign Office . It is the only synagogue of the city of Bonn and stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

A synagogue was built in the Jewish ghetto in Bonn, established in 1715, in the middle of the 18th century, and in 1879 a new synagogue was inaugurated on the north side of the Old Rhine Bridge (→ Old Synagogue (Bonn) ). Since 1932 there was also an "East Jewish" prayer room, the size of the congregation in 1933 was around 1200 members. The synagogue was destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 and later demolished.

The Jewish Community of Bonn , which was newly established after the Second World War , initially consisted of only a few people who had been using a prayer room in a private house since 1947 . After 1949, Bonn's new function as the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany led to a comprehensive expansion of the congregation, so that the need for its own meeting place and place of worship arose again. In 1956, the Jewish community acquired the replacement property on what was then Wörthstrasse (since 1978 Tempelstrasse ) on the northern edge of the parliament and government district using the funds from the sale of the previous synagogue property to the city of Bonn . The architect Helmut Goldschmidt was commissioned to design the new building . After the foundation stone was laid on April 9, 1958, the synagogue was ceremonially handed over on May 26, 1959. At the same time as the construction of the synagogue, the corner house Adenauerallee 113 , which is adjacent to the west and which belongs to the acquired property , was converted into the community hall of the synagogue community, also according to Goldschmidt's plans. In 1966 the synagogue was extended to the west, creating open parking spaces for cars and a community hall on the upper floor. In 1985 the administration wing was given a kitchen extension. In 1990, a fragment of a column was erected at a side entrance as a spoilage of the destroyed Old Synagogue with a stone tablet and inscription, which was moved to the Jewish cemetery of the Kottenforst forest cemetery in the Bonn district of Ückesdorf in spring 2019 .

The synagogue was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn on December 22nd, 2000. Protection is limited to the original building from 1958/59.

architecture

overall view

The complex consists of a two-story synagogue in the east and an originally two-story, now three-story, community building (administration wing) in the west. Both parts of the building are separated by a glazed entrance area . The outer walls consist of inclined reinforced concrete panels . In its original state, the synagogue had 40 places in a women's gallery hanging freely in the room and 80 places for men on the ground floor; the Torah shrine was made of walnut and maple .

literature

Web links

Commons : Synagoge Tempelstrasse (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 54, number A 3672
  2. ↑ List of streets in the Bonn district of Gronau
  3. ^ A b c Nicole Bemmelen: The new Judengasse in Bonn - emergence and destruction . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , ISSN  0068-0052 , Volume 51/52 (2001/2002), Bonn 2003, pp. 197–284 ( here: p. 263).
  4. ↑ Entry on residential building, Adenauerallee 113 in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland , 2013)
  5. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bonn, 2000 (Annex: Building description synagogue in Bonn, Tempelstrasse 2-4 )
  6. ^ Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann: Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn - installed from 1970 to 1991 . Dissertation, Bonn 2012. Part 2, p. 27. ( online PDF ; 5.8 MB)
  7. ↑ Boris Schafgans: The "Synagogenplatz" in Bonn after 1938 . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , ISSN  0068-0052 , Volume 68 (2018), Bonn 2019, pp. 213–222 (here: pp. 221).

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '30.3 "  N , 7 ° 6' 47.1"  E