Synagogue (Saarburg)

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The synagogue in Saarburg was established in 1885 at Schlossberg 3 in a building from the 18th century. During the November pogroms in 1938 , the interior was destroyed and burned on the market square. In 1962 the building, which had been privately owned and owned by the district of Trier , was demolished due to its dilapidation.

synagogue

A prayer room was already available in Saarburg before 1849. In 1885, the Jewish residents bought an 18th century building at Schlossberg 3 and set up a synagogue in it. The prayer room was in the basement. The two upper floors were used as living space. During the November pogroms in 1938, the interior of the synagogue was destroyed and burned on the market square. The former synagogue was then privately owned. The last owner was the district of Trier. In 1962 the building was demolished because it was in disrepair and a residential and commercial building was built on the site. In 1982 a memorial plaque was attached to the residential and commercial building. The inscription reads:

In memory of our
former Jewish
fellow citizens and their
synagogue at this place in the
city ​​of Saarburg in 1982

Saarburg Jewish Community

As early as 1321, Saarburg, which at that time already had city rights, was named as Jewish residents. In 1419, the Archbishop of Trier and Elector Otto von Ziegenhain had all Jews expelled from the archbishopric , which also affected the Jews in Saarburg. Since 1681 Jewish residents in Saarburg are again mentioned in the sources. Until the middle of the 19th century, the Jewish residents belonged to the Jewish community in Freudenburg . From this point on, Saarburg was an independent Jewish community, which also included the residents of the Jewish faith living in Beurig and Wiltingen . The community had a religious school, but had not hired its own religious teacher. The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Niederleuken . With the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, the repression against the Jewish population increased. As a result, many members of the Jewish community emigrated or moved away. At the time of the November pogroms in 1938, the community still had 21 members, more of whom emigrated. The last members of the Jewish community had to leave Saarburg in 1939 in the course of the evacuation of the Red Zone and were taken to Trier. From there, they were deported to the extermination camps from 1941 to 1943 .

Development of the Jewish population

year Jews Jewish families
1715 6th
1750 4th
1758 3
1779 4th
1808 8th 2
1843 10
1846 7th
1854 16
1861 25th
1862 32
1895 34
1905 24
1925 11
1933 40
1938 21st
Late 1939 no

Source: alemannia-judaica.de; jewische-gemeinden.de

The memorial book - Victims of the persecution of Jews under the National Socialist tyranny 1933–1945 and the central database of the names of the Holocaust victims from Yad Vashem list 53 members of the Saarburg Jewish community with the districts of Beurig and Wiltingen (who were born there or lived temporarily), who were murdered during the time of National Socialism .

literature

  • Cilli Kasper-Holtkatte: Jews on the move. On the social history of a minority in the Saar-Mosel area around 1800. In: Helmut Castritius (Ed.), Alfred Haverkamp (Ed.), Franz Irsigler (Ed.), Stefi Jersch-Wenzel (Ed.): Research on the history of the Jews (= Research on the history of the Jews. Volume 3). Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, ISBN 978-3775256124 . ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Saarburg with the Beurig and Wiltingen districts . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Saarburg (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Former synagogue in Saarburg . Kulturdb.de. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  5. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved March 30, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '29.2 "  N , 6 ° 33' 5.3"  E