Synagogue (Honnef)

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Later synagogue in Honnef (around 1895)
Construction drawing for the renovation from 1902

The synagogue in Bad Honnef (until 1960 Honnef ), a town in the Rhein-Sieg district on the southern edge of North Rhine-Westphalia , was set up in a converted former Protestant chapel in 1902 and destroyed by the National Socialists in 1938. It was on Linzer Strasse at number 26 and reached back to Kirchstrasse.

history

The Jewish community of Honnef , which became independent in 1887 , initially had a prayer room in a Jewish private house at Rommersdorfer Strasse 52. From 1897 they planned to build a new synagogue and for this purpose acquired the property at Schülgenstrasse 9-11 for this purpose in 1898 for 1200 marks . However, the estimated construction costs could not be raised by the municipality with the help of collections and events for the benefit of the project. In March 1901, the synagogue community of the Siegkreis therefore decided to purchase the chapel on Linzer Strasse, which had been profaned after the completion of the Protestant church and had 80 seats , for 8,000 marks , the construction of which had begun in 1870 according to preliminary planning and had been inaugurated on April 26, 1871 and convert it into a synagogue for 1,100 marks. The purchase contract was signed on September 6, 1901. On May 9, 1902, the Upper President of the Rhine Province, Berthold von Nasse, approved a house collection within the administrative district of Cologne that had been applied for to finance these costs and brought in 1,189 marks. In response to the building application for the renovation of July 7, 1902, the building permit was granted on August 18 . The Honnef architect Ottomar Stein was commissioned with the design , planning and execution . The renovation included the walling up of the former chapel entrance and the creation of a new entrance on the south side of the former choir , the installation of the Star of David and plaques of the law in the pointed arch, and the temporary separation of the choir from the nave for use as a classroom. The inauguration of the synagogue took place on September 12th and 13th, 1902. The synagogue was also used for religious instruction for the Jewish children from the synagogue community of Oberdollendorf , at least from 1922 onwards .

In the course of the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was destroyed on the afternoon of November 10th. The property was Aryanized in March 1939 , and according to the new owner's plans, a gas station and a garage were to be built on it. In 1943 a school barracks for evacuated orphans from Cologne was built there; today the property is used commercially as a gas station. Since November 10, 1979, a bronze plaque as a memorial plaque with a relief-like representation of the synagogue and the menorah has been pointing to the location of the former synagogue on the boundary wall of the property on Kirchstrasse .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Synagogue  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Adolf Nekum: Honnefs Kinder Israels: Traces and testimonies of Jewish life in and around Bad Honnef. A family, societal, social and religious history documentation.
  2. ↑ J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 266 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  3. ^ Hans Josten: Hundred years of Protestant community life in Bad Honnef . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 166–173 (here: pp. 166/167).
  4. ↑ Karl Josef Klöhs: glorious weather on Seven Mountains . Edition Loge 7, Königswinter 2003, ISBN 3-00-012113-7 , p. 115 .
  5. ↑ Jörg Schulze : Church building of the 19th century in the old Siegkreis (= Landeskonservator Rheinland, Arbeitsheft 21) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0320-3 (also dissertation RWTH Aachen, 1972), pp. 253-255.
  6. ↑ Manfred van Rey : Life and death of our Jewish fellow citizens in Königswinter: A book of remembrance (= City of Königswinter, Der Stadtdirektor: Königswinter in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Book 1, 1985). P. 89.
  7. ↑ a b Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  8. ↑ Dieter Spiegelhauer: Report on the preservation of monuments in the Rhein-Sieg district: Monuments and testimonies of Jewish history . In: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 1996 , ISSN  0932-0377 , Rheinlandia Verlag Klaus Walterscheid, Siegburg 1995, ISBN 3-925551-94-8 , pp. 17–40 (here: p. 19)
  9. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 30 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 32.4 "  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 39.2"  E