Synagogue (Offenburg)

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Building of the former synagogue in Offenburg

The synagogue in Offenburg , a town in the west of Baden-Württemberg , was set up in 1875 in the dance hall of the former Salmen inn . The address of the building is Lange Strasse 52. The leaders of Baden liberalism met on September 12, 1847 in the great hall of the Salmen .

history

When the Gasthaus Salmen , which then belonged to the city, was offered for sale in 1875 , the Jewish community of Offenburg acquired the building and set up a prayer room in the rear dance hall. The gallery of the hall was used as a women's gallery .

The front building, built in 1706, served the cantor and later the rabbi and the synagogue servant as an apartment.

In 1922 the synagogue was renovated and designed by the painter Kolb. District rabbi Ruben Halpersohn (* 1885 Breslau; died in 1941 in Ghetto Kovno ) gave the consecration speech at the reopening.

During the November pogrom of 1938 , four men forced their way into the synagogue in the early morning hours of November 10th. They shot pistols at the burning lamps, took Torah scrolls from the Torah shrine and tore them to pieces. In the afternoon, at the instigation of the NSDAP district leadership, a crowd destroyed the entire interior of the synagogue.

After various commercial uses, the city of Offenburg acquired the building in 1997 and converted it into a cultural center and memorial by 2002.

Commemoration

On November 8th, 1978, a plaque commemorating the synagogue and the fate of the Jewish community was placed on the former synagogue building in the presence of the Baden state rabbi Nathan Peter Levinson .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '4.2 "  N , 7 ° 56" 48.7 "  E