Synagogue (Ermreuth)
The former synagogue in Ermreuth , a district of the market Neunkirchen am Brand in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim , was built at Wagnergasse 8 between 1819 and 1822.
history
Since the membership of the Jewish community in Ermreuth had increased at the beginning of the 19th century, the synagogue built in 1738 had to be replaced by a new building. The new synagogue, designed by master mason Conrad M. Wörner, was inaugurated in 1822.
Because education and migration of Jewish families was not in 1930 minyan (ten religion mature Jewish men) more available to church services to celebrate.
During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue was desecrated, the furnishings and rituals destroyed, but the building was not set on fire. On August 31, 1953, the synagogue was transferred to the Free State of Bavaria and the latter sold the building to Raiffeisenbank Ermreuth in 1954 . Until it was sold to the municipality of Neunkirchen am Brand in 1974, the building was used as a storage room and was converted for it.
In November 1989, the Forchheim district founded a special purpose association for the renovation and maintenance of this structure. After major restoration work , the ceremonial reopening of the former synagogue took place on June 19, 1994. It now serves as a meeting place: A permanent exhibition on Jewish life in the country was set up on the gallery and in the stairwell, using the example of Ermreuth. The objects on display all come from the geniza in the attic of the synagogue.
description
The synagogue is a two-storey solid construction of stone . The classicist building on a rectangular floor plan has a width of 10.25 m and a length of 14.50 m and is covered with a hipped roof. A with cornice provided Kranz cornice and corner pilasters are the external features. The windows on the first floor are closed, on the east side there is a Torah oriel for the Torah shrine across the width of the building. On the west facade there are two entrances, the left one for the men and the right one for the women. The prayer room follows after a small anteroom. The women reach the women's galleries , which run on three sides , via their own small anteroom via a spiral staircase . The Almemor was originally placed in the middle of the prayer room, a sign that the majority of the Jewish community was Orthodox .
literature
- More than stones ... Synagogue memorial ribbon Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 , p. 137f.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '24.9 " N , 11 ° 11' 33.1" E