Synagogue (Gondelsheim)

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The synagogue in Gondelsheim , a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe ( Baden-Württemberg ), was built in 1849. The profaned synagogue in Leitergasse 6 is a protected architectural monument .

Synagogue Gondelsheim 2015

history

The Jewish community of Gondelsheim had a prayer room since the 18th century. In 1838 the Jewish community decided to build a synagogue. At that time, 99 people belonged to the Jewish community in Gondelsheim. The heads of household of the Jewish families had committed themselves to paying a weekly contribution to finance the construction of the synagogue. A collection from the Jewish communities in the districts of Bretten , Eppingen , Durlach , Ettlingen , Pforzheim and the Karlsruhe Landamt was approved by the authorities. The synagogue, built according to the plans of court architect Künzle, was inaugurated in 1849. It is built in the neo-Romanesque style, with arched windows and a jagged frieze on the gable.

Due to the small number of parishioners, regular services could no longer be celebrated in the early 1920s . The synagogue was closed after the dissolution of the Jewish community in 1925 and sold in 1930. The prayer room has been used by the New Apostolic parish since 1928 . After a church was built for the New Apostolic parish in 1963, the prayer room of the former synagogue was used commercially. Until 2003 it was the warehouse of a beverage trade. The building is still privately owned.

Torah scrolls have survived from the former synagogue and are now in a synagogue of Kfar-Eliahu in Israel .

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 and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).
  • Jürgen Stude: History of the Jews in the Karlsruhe district . Published by the Karlsruhe District Office, Karlsruhe 1990, p. 158f. (without ISBN)

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Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 34.7 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 31.7"  E