Synagogue (Göppingen)
The synagogue in Göppingen , a town in Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1880/81 and destroyed in 1938.
history
In 1867 an independent Jewish community was founded in Göppingen , which set up a prayer room in Schützenstrasse. In the building, which was demolished in 1897, there was also the apartment of the prayer leader , the meeting room of the community council and a classroom. In 1872 the first synagogue was set up at Pfarrstrasse 33.
After this synagogue became too small, a new building was built in Freihofstrasse in 1880/81. The foundation stone was laid on April 23, 1880 and the inauguration took place on September 16 and 17, 1881. From 1907 until his death in 1937 Aron Tänzer was rabbi here .
During the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was set on fire by SA men and completely destroyed. Then the fire ruins were blown up and cleared away.
In 1971 the city of Göppingen had a memorial plaque put up and the property turned into a park. Since 1999 the complex has been called Synagogenplatz .
architecture
The plans were made by the architect Christian Friedrich von Leins , professor at the Technical University in Stuttgart . The church service room had galleries on three sides . The square structure was preceded by a transverse rectangular western building, which housed the entrance hall, a meeting room on the ground floor and the organ gallery on the upper floor . The exterior was structured by pilaster strips , cornices and tracery windows.
A copper-clad dome on an eight-sided drum in the east of the building towered over the roof. The portal in the west opened into a high, arched, closed entrance hall covered by a triangular gable. Above this was a round window with a six-pass , which gave the interior sufficient daylight. The tablets of the Law crowned the gable . The synagogue had 278 seats: in the main room there were 136 seats for adults and 40 for school-age youngsters; 102 seats were available in the galleries: 51 each in the men's gallery and 51 in the women's gallery.
See also
literature
- 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 version ).
- Joachim Hahn , Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2007, pp. 152–155 ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 19 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 15.1 ″ E