Synagogue (Krakow am See)
The synagogue in Krakow am See houses the town's cultural center and is a protected monument .
After the local Jewish community had used another building as a place of worship for around thirty years from 1820, after a successful appeal for donations, they decided to build a new synagogue on the former Plauer Strasse , today's school square .
The synagogue, a single-storey neo-Romanesque building with a yellow brick facade and a gable roof , was inaugurated in December 1866 by the state rabbi Salomon Cohn . After a large part of the community members left and emigrated by the end of the 19th century, the maintenance of the building was no longer financially viable for the community. In 1911 the last Jewish New Year celebrations took place in the synagogue . In 1920 the building was sold to the city on condition that it be used for public purposes. It was then used as a gymnasium for several decades , and for a short time as a hall for the Catholic community. As a result of the sale, the building survived the Reichspogromnacht 1938 unscathed and was structurally only slightly changed from the outside. The culture house has been located in the synagogue building since 1986.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 . ( Online edition )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c History of the Krakow Synagogue on juden-in-mecklenburg.de ; accessed on October 2, 2017
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 2.3 ″ N , 12 ° 16 ′ 10.9 ″ E