Synagogue (Langenlonsheim)

The synagogue in Langenlonsheim ( Bad Kreuznach district , Rhineland-Palatinate ) at Hintergasse 30 was built in 1860, and desecrated and demolished during the November pogroms in 1938 . The ruin was demolished in 1958 .

history

In Langenlonsheim there was not only the Protestant and Catholic parishes, but also an important Jewish community . As early as 1685 Jews were found in Langenlonsheim. In 1769 28 Jews lived in Langenlonsheim. In 1842 there were 42 residents of Jewish faith. In 1895 over 70 Jewish citizens lived in Langenlonsheim. The Jewish religious community of Langenlonsheim was merged with that of Bretzenheim and Laubenheim to form a religious community in 1895. The synagogue of the three parishes was located at Hintergasse 30 in Langenlonsheim.

building

As early as 1823 there was a small synagogue in Langenlonsheim ; in 1840 the desire for a more spacious synagogue arose. In 1856 Samuel Weiss was able to acquire the property at Hintergasse 30 in Langenlonsheim. The synagogue has been on the cadastral plan since 1863. It had a meeting room and other rooms for Jewish religious instruction. The hall building had a cellar and was made of bricks and rubble stones. Over 50 seats were available on an area of ​​179 m². Daylight fell into the prayer room through large arched windows. The entrance was on a side axis.

On 9/10 November 1938, Langenlonsheimers and foreign Nazis demolished the synagogue in Hintergasse, smashing the Bima and the Aron ha-Qodesch next to doors, windows and benches; the floor was torn out. Three Torah scrolls , three sets of silver Torah essays ( Rimonim ), two Menorot made of silver, a silver Ner Tamid , a silver Hanukkiah and other silver ritual implements were stolen. The demolished sacred building was sold by Rudolf Mayer, who lived in Langenlonsheim, on behalf of the Langenlonsheim Jewish community for the sum of RM 427.50 on April 24, 1940. Rudolf Mayer ("Rudel") had returned from the First World War, injured in the war, and was chairman of the "Borussia" football club at the end of the 1920s. However, the purchase contract was canceled in 1950. In 1958 the existing building was canceled. Today there is a private house there.

See also

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

literature

• Stefan Fischerbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: Synagogues Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , p. 230–231 (published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate with the State Conservation Office of the Saarland and the Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem).
• Friedrich Schmitt u. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim. Wiesbaden 1991 (published by the local community Langenlonsheim), pp. 357–366.
• Karl-Wilhelm Höffler: From the history of the Jewish community in Langenlonsheim . In: Sachor . tape 1 . Mainz 1991, p. 4-35 .
• Jewish graves in the Bad Kreuznach district. History and design part I. A documentation of the district administration and the Pedagogical Center Rhineland-Palatinate . Bad Kreuznach 1995, p. 261-282, 553 .
• The Jewish synagogues in the Bad Kreuznach district . Bad Kreuznach 1988, p. 28 (published by the Bad Kreuznach district administration).
• Sylvia Zacharias: Synagogengemeinden 1933. A guide to their traces in the Federal Republic of Germany Part I . , . No. 461 . Berlin 1988 (publisher is the Association for the Care of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Germany).
• Werner Knopp: Statistical materials on the history of the Jewish population . tape 5 of the publications of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Archives Administration, vol. 18. Koblenz 1995.

Web links

• Langenlonsheim near Alemannia Judaica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Schmitt et al. a .: Local history Langenlonsheim , Wiesbaden 1991 (edited by the local community Langenlonsheim), p. 360

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '52.3 "  N , 7 ° 53' 59.5"  E.