Synagogue (Neustadt in Upper Silesia)

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 15.6 ″  N , 17 ° 34 ′ 37.2 ″  E

Synagogue (Neustadt in Upper Silesia)​

Poland

The Neustadt synagogue around 1910

The synagogue in Neustadt in Upper Silesia (today Prudnik ) was built in 1877 and destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 .

The synagogue in the former Hindenburgstrasse (today Tadeusz Kościuszko Strasse) was financed by the textile entrepreneur Samuel Fränkel (1801–1881), whose company Fränkel was the largest employer in Neustadt in Upper Silesia.

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 ).

Web links

Commons : Synagoge (Neustadt in Oberschlesien)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description at Virtuelles Schtetl (English)