Synagogue (Walldürn)

The former synagogue in Walldürn , a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district , was built around 1755 and existed until 1937.

history

Memorial plaque on the building in which the former prayer room was located

After the required number of religiously mature Jewish men had been reached in around 1770, the community set up a prayer room or synagogue in the building at 3 Zunftgasse, built in 1755 . The prayer room was on the second floor of the building. However, services could not always be held because there was no minyan in the parish between 1890 and 1921 . When the number of parishioners temporarily increased again after 1920, church services were held regularly again. Until 1937, the synagogue in Walldürn was the center of the ever-shrinking Jewish community of Walldürn . In 1937 the building with the prayer room was sold and converted into a residential building. According to the resolution of the Walldürner municipal council on October 16, 1989, a memorial plaque was attached to the house of the former prayer room.

literature

Franz Hundsnurscher / Gerhard Taddey: The Jewish communities in Baden. 1968. pp. 283-284.
Germania Judaica II, 2 pp. 862-863.
Walter Gramlich: On the history of the Walldürner Jews. In: 25 years of Heimat- und Museumsverein and the reopening of the Museum Walldürn Walldürner Museumsschriften Heft 7, 1991 pp. 51–61.