Synagogue (St. Wendel)

Synagogue in St. Wendel, drawing by the architect Hans Zeeh from 1902

The synagogue in St. Wendel , the county town of the same district in Saarland , was built 1,902th The synagogue , which was inaugurated on December 6, 1902, was located at 13 Kelsweilerstraße.

History and description

The historicist style synagogue was built according to plans by the architect Hans Zeeh. The main facade with an inflated and übergiebelten means risalit was from the characteristic bid panels and a Star of David crowned.

At the beginning of 1916 and in the spring of 1918 windows in the synagogue were broken several times. On the night of November 13-14, 1932, the synagogue portal was forcibly opened and a window was broken. On the night of March 3, 1935, four young people demolished the interior of the synagogue.

During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue was looted by SA and SS men and the building was set on fire. On November 24, 1938, the fire ruins were demolished by city workers. The city of St. Wendel bought the property from the Reich Association of Jews in Germany on October 1, 1942 , with the demolition costs being deducted from the purchase price.

In April 1949, the property came back into the possession of the Saar synagogue community, which sold it in 1951 to a transport company who rebuilt the property.

Commemoration

On August 26, 1981, a memorial plaque was placed on the neighboring house .

On November 9, 2016, a memorial stele was inaugurated on the site of the synagogue by the association Against Forgetting and Against Racism together with the district and the city of St. Wendel.

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945

literature

• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 461-461 ( memorial book of the synagogues in Germany 2).
• Roland Geiger: Investigation into the fire of the synagogue in St. Wendel 1947-1950. A documentation. 2nd edition St. Wendel 2016 ISBN 1093215968 .

Web links

Commons : Synagogue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Synagogue in St. Wendel near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 11.8 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 6"  E