Synagogue (Essingen)
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.jpg) Door of the synagogue in Essingen, photo in the archive of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York |
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| place | Essingen (Palatinate) |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Construction year | 1820-1821 |
The synagogue in Essingen , a local community in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate , was built in 1820/21.
location
The profaned synagogue is located at Gerämmestraße 48, the former Krämerstraße.
history
The classicist hipped roof building probably replaced an older prayer house.
Since 1933 the synagogue has not been used for church services. In 1937 the synagogue building was sold by the chairman of the Palatinate Jewish community to a local farmer and was therefore spared the November pogrom of 1938 .
The new owner converted the building into a barn . A large entrance gate was broken into the brickwork and some windows were bricked up. The portal inscription is still present above the synagogue entrance. Inside, the women's gallery and the niche for the Torah shrine can still be seen .
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. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 148-149 ( memorial book of the synagogues in Germany 2).
Web links
- Synagogue in Essingen near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 8 ° 9 ′ 57 ″ E