Synagogue (Kyllburg)

The synagogue in Kyllburg , a town in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate , was built in 1911/12. The synagogue was on Marienstraße on the southern slope of the Annenberg.

Synagogue in Kyllburg

Location of the synagogue

history

Memorial stone, photo from 2016

Marienstraße, southern slope of the Annenberg

In 1900 the childless Catholic innkeeper Jacob Schweitzer from Kyllburg bequeathed his fortune of 50,000 marks to the Jewish community as a contribution to the construction of a synagogue. The slate-covered central building on a square floor plan with an octagonal dome drum was made of rubble stone masonry . The entrance for the men was in the west, the women's gallery was reached via an external staircase on the south side.

During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue was burned down by the National Socialists. The property was not built on again.

Commemoration

In 1988 a memorial stone was erected opposite the synagogue site, on the site of the Protestant parish.

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).
• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: Synagogues Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland. "... and this is the gate of heaven" (=  memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. 2). Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 .

Web links

Commons : Synagogue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kyllburg synagogue near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 34 "  N , 6 ° 35 ′ 29"  E