Synagogue (Brauneberg)

Brauneberg synagogue
place	Brauneberg
Architectural style	Easily plastered building with a half-timbered upper floor
Construction year	Mid 19th century
demolition	1986
Coordinates	49 ° 54 '33.7 "  N , 6 ° 59' 14.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '33.7 "  N , 6 ° 59' 14.1"  E

The synagogue in Brauneberg (until 1925 Dusemond) was built in the second half of the 19th century at Hauptstrasse 75 (today's Moselweinstrasse 145). The synagogue was devastated during the November pogroms in 1938 . After the war the building served as a barn. In 1986 the building, which had been a listed building from 1981 to this point in time, was demolished subject to conditions for the new building and a building now used as a restaurant was erected on the site.

synagogue

The synagogue was built in the second half of the 19th century at Hauptstraße 75 (today's Moselweinstraße 145) in a building from the 18th century. The exact duration of use is not known. Presumably it was used until 1937, when the Jewish community was attached to the Niederemmel synagogue community . The synagogue was an eaves plastered building with a gable roof. The prayer room was on the upper floor, which was executed in half-timbered construction. This had three arched windows facing the street. There was no women's gallery . The area for the women was separated by a wooden grille. The inner walls of the prayer room were decorated with floral stencil paintings . During the November pogroms in 1938, the interior of the synagogue was devastated by members of the SA . Since it was feared that the flames would spread to the neighboring buildings, the synagogue was not set on fire. After the war, the former synagogue was used as a barn and a right-angled barn door was broken into the wall. In 1981 the building was listed as a historical monument. Since no maintenance measures were taken by the owner, the building fell into disrepair. In 1984 the owner applied for a demolition permit. Efforts were made by the municipality, the association, the district administration and the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate to preserve the building. Structural investigations then showed that the building could not be maintained with a reasonable financial outlay. In 1986 the monument protection was lifted and the demolition permit was granted. However, with the condition that the entrance portal had to be integrated into the new building in the same place as it was in the synagogue. The new building, which is now used as a pub, is oriented towards the street side of the former synagogue. The three windows on the upper floor are designed as arched windows. Instead of the entrance, an arched window was inserted on the ground floor that is framed by the former entrance portal of the synagogue. A memorial plaque is attached to the facade. The inscription reads:

In memory
of the Jewish fellow citizens of the
Dusemond - Brauneberg community.
The
Jewish synagogue, which
was destroyed during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938 , was located in this house

Brauneberg Jewish Community

The first Jews settled in the area of ​​Brauneberg in the 18th century. In 1896 the Jewish communities in Mülheim an der Mosel , Veldenz , Lieser and Wintrich were attached to the Brauneberg Jewish community. The community had a religious school. No information is available as to whether the community employed its own teacher. The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Brauneberg. In 1937 the number of members of the Jewish community had decreased to such an extent that it was connected to the Niederemmel synagogue community . The last Jewish residents were deported in October 1941.

Development of the Jewish population

year	Jews	Jewish families	comment
1843	18th
1895	42
1924	25 (86)		Brauneberg in brackets includes Mülheim, Veldenz, Lieser and Wintrich.
1927	27
1933	20 (62)		Brauneberg in brackets includes Mülheim, Veldenz, Lieser and Wintrich.

Source: alemannia-judaica.de; Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven"

The memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims by Yad Vashem list 39 members of the Brauneberg Jewish community (including Veldenz and Mülheim) (who were born there or lived there for a while), who were murdered during the time of National Socialism .

literature

• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany , 2). Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 126–127.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Brauneberg . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
2. ^ Bernkastel-Kues / Mosel (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany , 2). Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , p. 127 and note 160, p. 420.
4. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
5. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved May 24, 2020.