Synagogue (Unterlimpurg)

House Moses Mayer Seligmann, Unterlimpurger Straße 65 in Schwäbisch Hall (1718 to 1782 synagogue), painting 1738 to 1739 by Eliezer Sussmann, prayer for digging the Torah scroll "Barich Schme" (Rabbinical Aramaic: Blessed be he).

Paneling and Torah shrine of the Unterlimpurg synagogue in the Hällisch-Franconian Museum

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Torah shrine

The synagogue in Unterlimpurg , a village in the town of Schwäbisch Hall in northern Baden-Württemberg , was set up in a private house in the 18th century. The synagogue and the prayer room had paneling that was valuable in terms of art history .

history

In 1541, Jews were first mentioned in Unterlimpurg . At the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish community in Unterlimpurg belonged to the Steinbach synagogue community .

The services in Limpurg took place in the house of Moses Mayer, who in 1738/39 had this prayer room on the upper floor of his house at Unterlimpurger Straße 65 decorated by the painter Eliezer Sussmann . After the synagogue in Steinbach was built in 1809, this prayer room was given up.

Paneling

In 1904, the Jewish teacher Nathan Hähnlein had referred to the painting of the Unterlimpurger synagogue in a lecture to the Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia . The historical association bought the painted wall and ceiling paneling, which was exhibited in 1906 in the newly established museum in the historic tanner's and dyer's house. Since 1936 they have been shown in the medieval Keckenburg, in the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum in Schwäbisch Hall. Three walls of the prayer room and the ceiling in the museum have been reconstructed from the wood paneling. The colored paintings contain religious sayings and arabesques (flowers, tendrils, birds, mammals), city images, including a picture of Jerusalem . The painted Torah shrine is also preserved.

According to Eugen Gradmann , two rooms in the attic with painted plank walls formed the synagogue. There was also an inscription in Hebrew letters: “The two gracious mistress Stettmeinster sampt Hochedel maschügstrat 5499” (1739) The paintings are said to have been repainted with oriental carpet patterns. According to Gradmann, an elephant with a tower, an owl and an eagle was also depicted in the “naive taste of bismuth painting ”.

literature

• Lower Limpurg. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).
• Joachim Hahn , Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities (= memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. Vol. 4). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 , pp. 429-430.

Web links

• Synagogue Unterlimpurg near Alemannia Judaica
• Hall-Franconian Museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Building description of the city of Schwäbisch Hall
2. ↑ ^{a b} Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 84 ( archive.org ).
3. ↑ http://schwaebischhall.de/buergerstadt/geschichte/haeuserlexikon/gebaeudeververzeichnis.html?Detail=933#center
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 20.9 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 34.1 ″  E