Synagogue (Ihringen)
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The synagogue in Ihringen , a community in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in southwest Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1861 and destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 .
history
After the Jewish community in Ihringen had initially set up a prayer room in a Jewish private house, they built their first synagogue in 1760 . Since this had become dilapidated and at the same time there was no space for the growing number of parishioners, it was decided in 1842 to take the first steps in financing the new synagogue to be built.
The plans for the synagogue built in Bachenstrasse were carried out by the Freiburg architect Georg Jakob Schneider and the new synagogue was completed in 1863/64.
In 1927 the synagogue was renovated. Most of the financing was provided by the three brothers Maier, Hermann and Isaak Weil, who came from Ihringen and who had emigrated to the USA .
time of the nationalsocialism
During the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was set on fire and destroyed.
architecture
Outside
The synagogue was a two-story building. The entrance facade had a wide middle section, which was separated from two narrow side sections by pilaster strips . In the middle part was the entrance to be reached via six steps in the form of a simple arched portal . The vestibule led through a door to the prayer room. A Hebrew and German inscription in the arched field read: Here the gate to the Temple of the Eternal .
All windows were arched windows , which is why the style is also known as the arched style . The second floor had a triple window above the cornice in the middle section, which was subdivided with a wattle frieze . The gable above the triple window was adorned by a rosette and the gable was provided with a crenellated frieze, which was covered by a wattle frieze. The tablets of the law were enthroned on the top of the gable .
Inside
Two side, narrower room parts were separated from the wider central room by columns that supported the women's galleries. The benches were arranged around the raised bima . Behind this was the Torah shrine , which was lavishly decorated. Above the Torah curtain ( parochet ) the tablets of the law were placed in a wall field and above that there was another inscription tablet.
Commemoration
Since 1980 a memorial stone has been commemorating the destroyed synagogue.
See also
literature
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 , pp. 223-225 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).
- Franz-Josef Ziwes (Ed.): Baden synagogues from the time of Grand Duke Friedrich I in contemporary photographs . G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1997, ISBN 3-7650-8177-9 , pp. 44-47.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 41.1 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 47.8 ″ E