Synagogue (Steinsfurt)

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The former synagogue in Steinsfurt (photo 2019)
Interior with remains of the painting
Foundation stone dated 1893

The former synagogue in Steinsfurt , a district of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1893/94. After the renovation, it is to become a memorial , a regional documentation center on the history of the Jews in Kraichgau and a meeting place.

history

In 1803 the four Jewish families in Steinsfurt went to Rohrbach to worship because they had no meeting place for it in their own village. When the number of parishioners increased significantly in the 19th century, a prayer room was set up in what was then Ehrstädter Strasse 2, today Lerchenneststrasse 2. In 1890, the number of parishioners was already falling back then, the Jewish community in Steinsfurt decided to build a synagogue . In 1893/94, the building was built according to the plans of the architect Wilhelm Dick (1873–1904) from Hoffenheim in 1893/94. At the festive inauguration of the synagogue on July 13, 1894, the district rabbi Hillel Sondheimer from the Heidelberg district rabbinate gave the festive sermon .

architecture

The building is a single-storey brick building with a rectangular extension for the Torah niche on the east wall. Pilaster strips, decorative arches and decorative friezes made of brick-red bricks structure the facade made of white bricks. The spatial division inside the building to separate women and men (see Mechiza ) is no longer recognizable today.

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1933 the Jewish community in Steinsfurt still had 32 members. Due to the economic boycott and the persecution during the National Socialist era , some of them emigrated afterwards. In October 1938 the synagogue community sold the synagogue to a family in the neighborhood. During the November pogroms in 1938 , the new owners were able to prevent it from being damaged or even destroyed.

After 1945

The synagogue building was used as a storage room for decades. Located on a nearby stream, its substance suffered more and more from rising damp. In 1992, a working group from which the established club Old Synagogue Steinsfurt eV emerged that seeks to preserve the building. The city of Sinsheim has owned the building since 2005, and in the spring of 2007 the association signed a lease agreement with it in order to be able to renovate it.

The interior still largely shows the original paintwork ; the Torah niche is painted with a red curtain, to the left of it an inscription in a panel-like, painted cartouche commemorates the fallen in the First World War. Otherwise the walls are whitewashed blue and tendril friezes structure the ceiling.

literature

  • Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 , pp. 453–455 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).
  • Silke and Ralph Böttcher: For the maintenance of synagogues in the urban area of ​​Sinsheim. In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research. Episode 21/2009, Heimatverein Kraichgau , Eppingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-921214-43-5 , pp. 253-262.
  • Claudia Baer-Schneider: What can you do with a former synagogue? - Three examples in the Rhein-Neckar district: The former synagogues in Ehrstädt, Rohrbach and Steinsfurt (City of Sinsheim). In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg, newsletter of the state preservation of monuments , volume 38, issue 2/2009, pp. 100-105.

Web links

Commons : Synagoge (Steinsfurt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Appenzeller, Ortschronik, Volume 3, p. 10.
  2. ↑ Silke and Ralph Böttcher: On the preservation of synagogue buildings in the urban area of ​​Sinsheim

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 24.5 "  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 37.8"  E