Synagogue (Schwabach)
The synagogue in Schwabach , a town in Middle Franconia ( Bavaria ), was built in 1800. The derelict synagogue at Synagogengasse 6 is a protected architectural monument .
history
The three buildings of the Jewish community in Schwabach, the synagogue, the rabbi's house and the religious school at Synagogengasse 5, 6 and 7 were grouped around a courtyard that could be closed by gates in the north and south. The old synagogue had become too small for the growing number of parishioners, it was demolished in 1799 and a new synagogue was built on the same site in 1800.
The last services in the synagogue were probably held in 1937. In August 1938, the building was sold to a brewery that used it as a warehouse. The rituals came to the Jewish regional association in Munich . When it was sold to the brewery, the former synagogue remained undamaged during the November pogrom in 1938 .
After 1945 the synagogue was confiscated by the Allies and used as a synagogue by the Jewish community in Schwabach, which existed again until 1948. From 1949 the building was empty again and came back into the possession of the brewery in the early 1950s after clarification of the restitution procedure .
In 1998 the association Synagogengasse 6 e. V. founded. He took over the building vacated by the brewery on lease and restored the former synagogue in the following years. The women's gallery was also reconstructed. In 2003 a seminar room of the municipal adult education center was opened in the former prayer room .
architecture
A two-storey hipped roof structure rises on a 9.40 by 14.0 meter floor plan with five axes on the long sides and three each on the narrow sides. A profiled eaves cornice forms the top of the wall . The unadorned entrance on the western side, facing Synagogengasse, was originally decorated with a wedding stone in the shape of a star. Originally there was an entrance for the women at the western end of the southern longitudinal wall, from there they reached the women's gallery via a staircase . The flat-roofed prayer room extended over two floors.
See also
literature
- Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: Synagogues in the rabbinical district of Schwabach . In: The Schwabach Rabbinical District . Ergon-Verlag , Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89913-788-0 , pp. 128-132 ( Franconia Judaica , Vol. 4).
Web links
- Synagogue Schwabach near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
- Synagogue in Schwabach near the city of Schwabach
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '51.8 " N , 11 ° 1' 21.73" E