Synagogue (Ellingen)
The synagogue in Ellingen , a town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ( Bavaria ), was built in 1757. The secular synagogue at Neue Gasse 14 is a protected architectural monument .
history
Presumably there was a prayer room for the Jewish families in Ellingen as early as the 17th century. There is documentary evidence for the first time that Jews were in the village in 1542.
In 1741 the Jewish court factor Samuel Landauer bought a palace ( Palais Landauer ) and had it rebuilt in the Baroque style. Among other things, the baroque hall on the first floor was created, which served the Jewish community in Ellingen as a prayer room until they could build their own synagogue building. This was in 1757 after the plans of the German Order -Baumeister Matthias Binder as a community center with ritual bath ( mikvah ) and teachers or Vorbeterwohnung built.
During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue was desecrated by an SS detachment from the area and the inventory was smashed. On November 17, 1938, the building came into the possession of a non-Jewish family. In the 1960s the synagogue was converted into a residential building.
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
- 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 edition ).
Web links
- The synagogue from 1756 - 1938 was lost in the 1960s of the 20th century due to the installation of living space for Jews in Ellingen (with photos)
- Description of the synagogue at Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 1.14 ″ E