Synagogue (Hüttersdorf)

The Hüttersdorf synagogue was built in 1855 in Hüttersdorf ( Saarlouis district ) on Lindenstrasse (today Pater-Werny-Strasse 1). It was abandoned in 1935 and damaged several times in the years that followed. In 1957 the badly damaged building was sold and demolished.

History of the synagogue

A synagogue (presumably a prayer room in a residential building) is mentioned in Hüttersdorf as early as 1724. In 1855, a new synagogue was built in what was then Lindenstrasse (today Pater-Werny-Strasse 1) with public subsidies. In 1892 a renovation took place. The synagogue was a simple building. The synagogue had three windows on the street side and two windows on the opposite side. After the referendum in 1935 and the associated annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich , almost all members of the Jewish community emigrated and the synagogue was given up in 1935. In 1940 and in the following years the synagogue was repeatedly the victim of vandalism. In 1957 the ruin was sold and demolished.

Jewish community of Hüttersdorf

The Jewish community of Hüttersdorf also included the inhabitants of the Jewish faith from Bettingen, Buprich and Lebach . The first members of the Jewish community settled in the Hüttersdorf area as early as 1724. The community did not have its own cemetery during its existence. The dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Dillingen . In addition to the synagogue, the believers also had a mikveh and a religious school. At least for a time, a teacher was employed who also held the function of prayer leader and shochet . After the Saar area was annexed to the German Reich in 1935, most of the members of the community emigrated and the synagogue was given up. The last remaining members of the Jewish community were deported to the Gurs internment camp in 1940. In memory of the Jewish community of Hüttersdorf, a memorial plaque was attached to the cultural center in Hüttersdorf on November 9, 2008.

The inscription reads:

In memory of the Jewish synagogue community of Hüttersdorf 1855-1935. Her synagogue was on this street.

In the memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny of 1933–1945 and in the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem , 21 members of the Hüttersdorf Jewish community (including Bettingen, Buprich and Lebach) who were born there or lived there for a while , listed who were murdered during the Nazi era .

Development of the Jewish population

year	Jews	Jewish families	Number in the municipalities
1735		3	entire rule of Hüttersdorf
1808	22nd		Buprich 10, Hüttersdorf 12
1847	35		Buprich 8, Bettingen 13, Hüttersdorf 14
1895	57		Buprich + Hüttersdorf 22, Bettingen 35
around 1924	65		Buprich + Hüttersdorf 28, Lebach 12, Bettingen 25
1932	24		Bettingen
1935	35		Buprich + Hüttersdorf + Lebach + Bettingen
↑ For 1932 only the population figures from Bettingen are available

Source: alemannia-judaica.de

literature

• Cilli Kasper-Holtkatte: Jews on the move. On the social history of a minority in the Saar-Mosel area around 1800. In: Helmut Castritius (Ed.), Alfred Haverkamp (Ed.), Franz Irsigler (Ed.), Stefi Jersch-Wenzel (Ed.): Research on the history of the Jews (= Research on the history of the Jews. Volume 3). Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, ISBN 978-3775256124 , pp. 32-44. ( Digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de%2Fopus45-ubtr%2Ffrontdoor%2Fdeliver%2Findex%2FdocId%2F778%2Ffile%2FFGJA3_GB3Dpdf .Holt IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D )
• Hans Peter Klauck: Jewish life in the city and in the district of Saarlouis 1680–1940. In: Publications of the Association for Local Studies in the Saarlouis district. (= Publications of the Association for Local Studies in the Saarlouis District . Volume 20). 2016, ISBN 978-3-933926-65-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hüttersdorf with Bettingen and Buprich (community Schmelz, district Saarlouis) and Lebach Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Nalbach (Saarland) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
3. ↑ Hüttersdorf community commemorates the old synagogue community . Saarbrücker Zeitung. November 4, 2008. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
4. ↑ List of names of the online version of the memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews at: www.bundesarchiv.de, accessed on December 14, 2019
5. ↑ Yad Vashem - Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims On: yvng.yadvashem.org, accessed on December 14, 2019