Beth Zion Synagogue

Beth Zion Synagogue
Construction year:	1910
Location:	52 ° 32 '7.7 "  N , 13 ° 23' 55.1"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '7.7 "  N , 13 ° 23' 55.1"  E
Address:	Brunnenstrasse 33 Berlin Berlin , Germany
Purpose:	orthodox judaism synagogue
Website:	www.kaj-berlin.de

The former Beth Zion synagogue ( Hebrew בית ציון , House Zion ' ) is located on the back of the Brunnenstrasse 33 in Berlin district center . It was built in 1910 by the umbrella manufacturer Fritz Hellwig and was a private synagogue of the Jewish Orthodox Beth Zion community. The interior was completely destroyed by the National Socialists during the November pogroms in 1938 , after which the building was empty for a long time. After the renovation began in the 1980s, it was re-consecrated in 2005, and since then it has served as the beit midrash of a Talmud Torah school and as the synagogue of the Kahal Adass Yisroel association .

The synagogue is a rectangular building made of brick masonry . The facade has double windows on the ground floor under a segmented arch and four large round windows with decorative brick borders on the first floor . Originally, wooden frames in the form of stars of David were set into these, but they are no longer there today. Above the main portal on the gable end there is a Hebrew inscription from Psalm 118 . The interior comprised 520 to 570 seats and also had a wooden gallery supported by six slender columns .

The listed building is of particular historical value, as it is one of the last remaining private court synagogues in Berlin.

See also

Memorial plaque to the history of the synagogue

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945
• List of cultural monuments in Berlin-Mitte

literature

• Heidi Ehwald, Sabine Krusen, Lutz Mauersberger: The private synagogue "Beth Zion": Brunnenstrasse 33. Berlin Mitte. Fate of an almost forgotten house of God . 1st edition. Hentrich and Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938485-93-4 .
• Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Berlin. Mitte district. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-80-6 , p. 568.

Web links

Commons : Beth Zion Synagogue  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Yeshiva Beis Zion
• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
• Alexander Glintschert: Synagogue "Beth Zion" . In: Anderes Berlin , August 7, 2012.
• Jewish life on Brunnenstrasse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments in Berlin. Mitte district. Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, 2003, p. 568.
2. ↑ Ulrike Steglich: A yeshiva at Brunnenstrasse 33. Jewish educational institution plans to move to the Rosenthal suburb. In: Stadt-Plan-Mitte No. 32 September 2005, accessed on 16 July 2017 . 
3. ↑ Kahal Adass Yisroel
4. ↑ Translated it means: This is the gate through which the righteous will enter. ( Ps 118.20  EU )
5. ↑ Alexander Glintschert: Synagogue "Beth Zion". In: Other Berlin. August 7, 2012, accessed July 16, 2017 . 
6. ^ Mathias Raabe: Wanted : Use concept: private synagogue should be preserved . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 28, 2002