Synagogue (pruntrut)
The synagogue in Pruntrut , a political municipality and capital of the district of the same name in the Swiss canton of Jura , was built from 1872 to 1874 and demolished in 1983. The synagogue stood outside the old town on Rue de la Synagogue.
history
From around 1860 a meeting and prayer room was set up in a building on Grande Rue , and a little later the Jewish community in Pruntrut was able to set up a prayer room in a building on Rue des Annonciades . As the number of Jewish residents in the city had increased sharply in the 1860s due to the immigration of Jews from Alsace , a commission was set up in 1869 to raise money for the construction of a synagogue.
In 1871 the Jewish community purchased a plot of land near the train station for the construction of a synagogue. Construction began in 1872, initially based on plans by the contractor Jean Matt. The architect Louis Laporte took over the rest of the construction after a dispute with Jean Matt. The synagogue was inaugurated on September 3, 1874.
As with the synagogue in Freiburg im Breisgau , two slender towers each flanked the main entrance on the west side and the single-storey apse extension in the area of the Torah shrine on the east side .
After the First World War , the synagogue was used less and less because most of the parishioners had left the city. Renovations were carried out on the synagogue in the late 1940s. In 1972 the last service was held on the occasion of a bar mitzvah . At that time, the last three Jewish residents of Pruntrut decided to sell the synagogue and give it up for demolition. In 1983 the synagogue was demolished without any objection from the state authorities. Only the iron entrance gate to the forecourt and the stone command panels remind of the synagogue on the property .
literature
- Ron Epstein-Mil: The synagogues of Switzerland. Buildings between emancipation, assimilation and acculturation. (= Contributions to the history and culture of the Jews in Switzerland, Volume 13 (series of publications by the Swiss Association of Israelites).) Photographs by Micharl Richter. Chronos, 2nd expanded edition, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1398-7 , pp. 127–132.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '8.6 " N , 7 ° 4' 38.6" E ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and forty / 252091