Synagogue (Osnabrück)

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The synagogue in February 2010 from the north-northeast, extension in the foreground, hexagonal building from 1969 in the background
Synagogue, view from the north-northwest

The synagogue in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony) is the meeting place and place of worship for the Jewish community in the Weststadt district . The synagogue was inaugurated in 1969 and reopened in 2010 after the building was expanded. The community belongs to the state association of the Jewish communities of Lower Saxony and is the second largest in Lower Saxony .

history

The history of the Jews in Osnabrück goes back to the 13th century; they were denied citizenship until the early 19th century; only a few Jews had received letters of protection by then . The Jews in Osnabrück held their services in private homes. The first synagogues were in Schweinestraße (later Marienstraße) and Redlingerstraße. These synagogues have not been preserved. In 1905 the foundation stone was laid for what was later to be known as the Old Synagogue ; it was inaugurated in 1906. On November 9, 1938, during the November pogrom , the Old Synagogue was set on fire and the demolition was ordered on the same day.

In April 1945 five Jews were still living in Osnabrück; their number rose to 45 by October of that year as a result of immigration. The former Jewish school served as a makeshift synagogue for the time being.

On December 11, 1967, the foundation stone for a new building was laid in the street In der Barlage. The building was carried out in orthodox construction by the Frankfurt architect Hermann Zvi Guttmann (1917–1977). The hexagonal building with seats for men on the ground floor and for women on two galleries faces east. A menorah is depicted on the eastern outer wall .

The adjoining community hall belongs to the complex; Residential buildings were built on the property in the rear area. The synagogue was inaugurated on June 1, 1969.

In 1989 the Jewish community had 69 members. Due to the influx of quota refugees from the states of the former Soviet Union from 1991 onwards, the number of parishioners rose to 1125 in 2008. The synagogue no longer offered enough space; an expansion was started in 2008 for 3.6 million euros. The expansion was planned by the Frankfurt architect Alfred Jacoby (* 1950).

The funds came from the Jewish community in Lower Saxony, the Jewish Community Fund in Northwest Germany, the State of Lower Saxony and the city of Osnabrück, as well as from collections from Christian communities. A Protestant and Roman Catholic parish in Osnabrück organized benefit concerts. The district of Osnabrück and the districts of Grafschaft Bentheim and Emsland , whose Jewish residents are part of the community, also took part.

During the construction period of 14 months, the community moved to rooms that the Diocese of Osnabrück provided in the former Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Northern Germany.

With the extension, the community also received a mikveh .

On February 3, 2010, the expanded synagogue was reopened with the introduction of the Torah scrolls. The ceremony took Charlotte Knobloch the President as the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Chief Rabbi Jonah Sievers , a native of Osnabrück Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff , and the Osnabrücker Bishop Franz-Josef Bode part.

Also present was Ewald Aul (1926-2013), who survived the Holocaust as one of five Jews from Osnabrück , was chairman of the community for many years and was honored in 2006 by the city of Osnabrück with the award of the citizen's medal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christians donate 33,000 euros for the synagogue  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kathisch.de from February 5, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.katholisch.de  
  2. ↑ Tamar Avraham, Daniel Fraenkel: Osnabrück In: Herbert Obenaus (ed.) In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel: Historical Manual of the Jewish Congregations in Lower Saxony and Bremen Volume 2. Göttingen 2005, pp. 1196-1220, ISBN 3-89244 -753-5
  3. ↑ Jewish community Osnabrück
  4. ↑ Churches donate for the Osnabrück synagogue In: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover online from November 17, 2009
  5. ↑ More space for Jewish community life ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Kirchenbote - weekly newspaper for the Diocese of Osnabrück @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchenbote.de
  6. ↑ Christians donated for synagogue In: Die Welt online from February 4, 2010
  7. ↑ Jews with a new place of worship: synagogue handed over
  8. ↑ Greetings from Osnabrück's Lord Mayor Boris Pistorius (PDF file; 16 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 21.3 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 56.6"  E