Synagogue (Ingenheim)
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 Synagogue in Ingenheim |
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| place | Cheap home-Ingenheim | |
| architect | Friedrich von Gärtner | |
| Builder | Jewish community Ingenheim | |
| Architectural style | Orientalizing architecture | |
| Construction year | 1831-1832 | |
| demolition | 1940s | |
| Floor space | 125 m² | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 8 '15.4 " N , 8 ° 4' 53.7" E | |
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The synagogue in Ingenheim , a district of the local community Billigheim-Ingenheim in the district of Südliche Weinstraße ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), was a synagogue that was built in 1831/32 and devastated during the November pogroms in 1938 . The synagogue was at Hauptstrasse 21.
history
The Jewish community in Ingenheim previously owned an older synagogue about which nothing has been recorded. Bernhard Roos , as the first board member of the largest Jewish religious community in the Palatinate , signed the purchase contract for the future synagogue property with other members on September 27, 1827. In 1830, when planning a new building, the design by the Munich architect Friedrich von Gärtner was selected. August von Voit took care of the interior work . On December 10, 1832, the inauguration took place, at which Rabbi Jakob Aaron Ettlinger gave the inauguration speech. The building with a floor area of 125 m² had space for 240 men and 170 women in the galleries. The Ingenheim synagogue became a model for other synagogues in the Kingdom of Bavaria, such as in Albersweiler , Binswangen , Böhl and Weingarten .
In 1922, the Jewish community erected a memorial to the community members who died in the First World War in the aisle in front of the Bima .
In June 1844, the Speyer bishop Nikolaus von Weis visited the synagogue in Ingenheim, which was an important rapprochement with the Jewish population at the time.
time of the nationalsocialism
The Synagogue in Ingenheim was set on fire during the November pogroms on November 10, 1938. The fire brigade was not allowed to extinguish and the building burned down completely. The following ritual objects were destroyed: 20 Torah scrolls , 60 Torah cloaks , 15 sets of Torah jewelry, 100 Torah pennants , ten Torah curtains , an eternal lamp , four Hanukkia , four silver altar candlesticks, two megillots , two shofar horns and much more
The ruins of the synagogue were further damaged during the war and finally demolished. A memorial plaque was inaugurated in 1986 in the presence of the then regional rabbi of Rhineland-Palatinate, Meir Ydit .
architecture
Exterior
The two-storey plastered building had a prestigious west facade, raised by a stepped gable , which was dominated by a portal that reached up to the cornice . The entrance consisted of a strongly drawn in horseshoe arch that rested on two pillars with capitals . Behind it was the double-leaf coffered door over which an oculus was attached. In the stepped gable there was a twin window in a rectangular frame with horseshoe arches and a cloverleaf arch to complete the window system. The tablets of the law were enthroned on the gable with a top crowned with acroteria . The windows on the long sides of the building also had horseshoe arches on both floors. The entire exterior was characterized by oriental style elements.
The following inscription was placed above the portal: This is the gate to the Lord; righteous people enter through it ( Psalm 118 : 20). Above it, in the window, was the usual saying on wedding stones ( chuppastones ): The voice of bliss and the voice of joy are the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride ( Jeremiah 7:34).
inner space
After a vestibule, with windows on both sides, you entered the prayer room, which received sufficient light from six windows on both sides. The three-sided women's gallery rested on slender columns with capitals. Beneath it, the men's benches were set up on the right and left so that a wide central aisle was created. The bima was in the middle of the hall and the Torah shrine was designed as an aedicula with columns and Egyptian capitals and richly decorated flat gables. The Toralade was set in a horseshoe arch niche.
See also
literature
- Jewish life in the Palatinate: A cultural travel guide, S. Meißner / B. Gerlach (eds.), Speyer 2013, p. 63f.
- "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Edited by Stefan Fischbach u. a., ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate u. a., Mainz 2005, pp. 105–108, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 (Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany, Vol. 2).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SYNAGOGUE IN THE PALATINATE - Ingenheim. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
