Synagogue (Osterode)

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Osterode, Langer Krummer Bruch 18: front building of the synagogue, former Jewish school.

The former synagogue in Osterode in the district of Göttingen was built in 1787/88. It is located on the Langer Krummer Bruch street as the rear building at number 18. The ensemble of front and rear buildings served the Jewish community of Osterode until 1935 and was forcibly sold in 1939. In the course of changing subsequent uses, a wooden false ceiling was installed in the former synagogue.

Secret Annex: Synagogue

There was a previous building to this synagogue, a private prayer house of Lazarus Heart. Herz came from Fulda and came to Osterode in 1671 with a letter of protection. His heirs sold the now dilapidated building and its inventory to the Jewish community around 1780.

Schmul Ephraim then had the originally free-standing synagogue built between 1787 and 1788 as a half-timbered hall construction on a massive basement. The interior was only 7.40 × 8.80 m in size and had a hollow ceiling. The stone basement accommodated stables and utility rooms. (There is a similarity to contemporary inns, which were also often built as half-timbered hall buildings on a massive basement.) In the west there was a women's gallery, on the east wall the Torah shrine in an oriel-like extension, of which traces (mortises) can still be seen. There is still a small window above the former Torah shrine.

Front building: Jewish school and teacher's apartment

Plaque

The two-storey, historicist half-timbered house with tiled compartments was rebuilt by the Jewish community in 1893. A connecting building with a staircase that was built at the same time connected the front and rear buildings.

A bronze memorial plaque on the front building refers to the history of the monument:

“This building was the until 1938

SYNAGOGUE

of the Jewish community of Osterode.

Who prayed to God here

were persecuted and destroyed.

אלהים אתה ידעת לאולתי ואשמותי ממך לא־נכחדו

God, you know my folly / and

my guilt is not hidden from you.

Psalm 69 / 6. "

literature

  • Thomas Kellmann: Synagogues in Einbeck and southern Lower Saxony - today. In: Einbecker yearbook. Vol. 49 (2004), pp. 49-74.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Osterode / Harz (Lower Saxony). In: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Retrieved January 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Kellmann: Synagogues in Einbeck and southern Lower Saxony . S. 66 .
  3. ^ A b c Thomas Kellmann: Synagogues in Einbeck and southern Lower Saxony . S. 68 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '34.6 "  N , 10 ° 15' 5.9"  E