Synagogue (Kippenheim)

It is the front of the former synagogue in Kippenheim.

Synagogue in Kippenheim, around 1895

Plan of the synagogue in Kippenheim, the horseshoe arched windows were designed as round arched windows

The synagogue in Kippenheim , a community in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1850/51 and the interior was devastated during the November pogroms in 1938 . The synagogue is located on Poststrasse and has been protected as a cultural monument since 1981 .

history

Since the previous synagogue had become too small for the now 35 Jewish families on site, a synagogue building fund was set up in 1842 for the purpose of a new building . The Jewish community of Kippenheim then built a neo-Romanesque synagogue in 1850/52 according to plans by the architect Georg Jakob Schneider . Their representative appearance shows the self-confidence of the Jewish community.

architecture

Franz-Josef Ziwes writes (see literature, p. 48): The dimensions of the building are 18.41 meters in length, 10.63 meters in width and 12.32 meters in height. The arched double tower facade with triangular gables and crenellated tower stumps is characteristic of the overall impression . Schneider drew on the model of the Kassel synagogue by Albert Rosengarten , which was completed in 1839 . A triple arch , slightly raised in the middle, with a Hebrew inscription ('This is nothing but a house of God') forms the entrance portal , behind which there is a small vestibule. A double cornice with ornamentation in the parapet area runs between the entrance and the gallery . The proportions of the portal are repeated in the three arched windows above . A tracery rose emphasizes the upper part of the facade, the gable triangle of which is completed with the Hebrew-inscribed mandatory signs above a rising arched frieze . The towers take up the spiral stairs to the women's galleries and have a narrow arched window on each floor and a six-pass at the top . Its crenellated wreath , supported by a strongly pronounced round arch frieze, appears as a combination of round arch and crenellated battlements and is reminiscent of the command panels. The facade is made of white, the decorative elements are made of red sandstone worked .

time of the nationalsocialism

In the course of the November pogroms in 1938 , the building was desecrated by members of the Lahr HJ regional leadership school. Members of the congregation who were just present and celebrating worship were mocked and mistreated. They were driven to the town hall and handed over to a Gestapo detachment together with men from nearby Altdorf , which took them to the Dachau concentration camp . An incendiary device was put out because neighbors feared for their shed ; a later demolition was not carried out because one did not want to damage the adjacent buildings.

Todays use

After 1956, took advantage of Raiffeisen - cooperative the building as a workshop and warehouse. Among other things, the two towers and the gable with its rose window were removed. In 1983 the municipality of Kippenheim acquired the building and carried out an extensive exterior renovation in the following years. The facade was returned to its original state.

In 1996, the newly founded association for the development of the Former Synagogue Kippenheim e. V. developed a renovation concept for the interior of the building in cooperation with the municipality of Kippenheim and the state monument office , which was implemented in 2002/03.

In 2014 and 2015, services were held in the synagogue for the first time on Yom Kippur, organized by the Jewish community of Gescher Freiburg together with cantor Dr Annette M. Boeckler.

Commemoration

In 1998, a memorial plaque for the victims of the Holocaust from Kippenheim was placed in the anteroom of the synagogue . The synagogue now serves as a memorial, learning and meeting place.

literature

Jürgen Stude: This is nothing but the house of God! Guide through the former synagogue in Kippenheim. Regional culture publishing house , Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-701-3 .

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. 520-522 ( 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. 48-49.

Uwe Schellinger (Ed.): Memory from stone. The synagogue in Kippenheim 1852–2002 . Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg et al. 2002, ISBN 3-89735-195-1 . [not evaluated]

Web links

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48.29359 7.82515Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 36.9 ″ N , 7 ° 49 ′ 30.5 ″ E