Synagogue (Neckarsteinach)

Former synagogue in Neckarsteinach

The synagogue in Neckarsteinach , a town in the Bergstrasse district of Hesse , was built in 1888/89. The profaned synagogue is at 9 Hirschgasse.

History and description

In the 1800s, the Neckarsteinach Jewish community bought a house on the road to Hirschhorn and set up a prayer room and a teacher's apartment in it. In 1886 the old synagogue had to be demolished because it was in disrepair .

The new synagogue was built on the site of the old one. The foundation walls and the remaining remains of the old synagogue were partly taken over.

The two-storey solid building was clad with red sandstone . The window openings in the shape of a horseshoe arch and the cornices are made of light sandstone.

time of the nationalsocialism

During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue was desecrated and devastated by National Socialists from Neckarsteinach and Ziegelhausen : On the evening of November 10, 1938, the men smashed the furniture with hatchets and axes.

The synagogue building was temporarily used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II and after 1945 it was converted into a residential building.

Commemoration

A small notice board is attached to the building.

See also

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

literature

• Thea Altaras : Synagogues and Jewish ritual immersion baths in Hesse - What happened since 1945? 2nd edition, Königstein im Taunus 2007, ISBN 978-3-7845-7794-4 , p. 277.

Web links

• Synagogue in Neckarsteinach near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '26.81 "  N , 8 ° 50' 15.2"  E