Synagogue (Zeltingen)

Zeltingen synagogue
place	Zeltingen
Construction year	1853
demolition	1950s
Coordinates	49 ° 57 '11.9 "  N , 7 ° 0' 58.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '11.9 "  N , 7 ° 0' 58.3"  E

The synagogue in Zeltingen was built in 1853 at Fährstraße 22. In 1933 the synagogue was given up and sold to a private person who converted it into a warehouse. In the 1950s the synagogue was demolished except for parts of the foundation walls and a new residential building was built on them.

synagogue

There was already a synagogue in Zeltingen before 1821. Until the separation of the Jewish communities of Rachtig , Lösnich and Ürzig from the Jewish community of Zeltingen in 1853, their members visited the synagogue in Zeltingen. In 1837 there was a fire in the synagogue. The building was repaired, but by 1842 it was in such a bad structural condition that it was decided to build a new one. The new synagogue was built in 1853 at Fährstraße 22. The building was a square quarry stone building with a hipped roof . From 1920, after the religious communities of Rachtig and Zeltingen had merged again into one religious community, the services were held alternately in the Rachtig synagogue and the Zeltingen synagogue. In 1933 the number of Jewish community members had decreased so much that the synagogue was given up and sold to a private individual. He converted the synagogue into a warehouse. In the 1950s the synagogue building was demolished except for parts of the foundation walls. These were then integrated into the newly built house on the site.

Jewish community in Zeltingen

Until 1853 the Jewish communities in the communities of Rachtig, Zeltingen, Ürzig and Lösnich formed a religious community. From this point on, the Jewish community in Zeltingen had the status of an independent religious community. The Jewish community had the highest membership in the middle of the 19th century. From then on the number of Jewish residents decreased more and more. In 1920 the two religious communities Rachtig and Zeltingen reunited to form one religious community, as the number of Jewish community members in both places had declined sharply. The community had a mikveh and a religious school. At times, a separate religion teacher was employed, who also performed the duties of prayer leader and shochet . The deceased were buried in the old Jewish cemetery in Zeltingen until around 1876 . From 1876 onwards in the newly created Jewish cemetery in Zeltingen. From 1933, after the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler , the Jewish inhabitants were increasingly disenfranchised. In addition, there were repeated anti-Jewish actions that culminated in the November pogroms in 1938. As a result, all Jewish families left the community by 1939.

Development of the Jewish population

year	Jews	Jewish families	comment
1808	33	5
1833	47
1843	55
1850	46
1924	25th
1933	17th

Source: alemannia-judaica.de; jewische-gemeinden.de

The memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem list 13 members of the Jewish community in Zeltingen (who were born there or lived temporarily) who were during the time of National Socialism were murdered.

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. ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany , 2). Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 412-413.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Zeltingen . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Zeltingen-Rachtig / Mosel (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
3. ^ Former synagogue in Zeltingen . Database of cultural assets in the Trier region. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
4. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
5. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved June 8, 2020.