Borgholz synagogue
The synagogue is a listed Jewish house of worship in Kleine Str. 8 in Borgholz , a district of Borgentreich in the Höxter district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). In August 1999, the building was the first monument to be awarded Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe .
History and architecture
The rectangular hall with an extension for the Torah shrine was built in 1838. The timber-framed building , under a gently sloping hipped roof , is structured by ogival windows.
After the synagogue had already been desecrated in early 1937 in a local individual action by throwing windows, breaking the door and devastating the interior, it was again the target of riots during the November pogroms in 1938 . Furniture, prayer books and other items were burned on the street in front of the synagogue. The property and building were then “ Aryanized ” and since then have been used as storage space. After 1945 the outside staircase was removed, the floor was lowered and a gate was added to allow access to the building. An extensive renovation took place from 1995 to 1998. The outside staircase was renewed. The walls are filled with narrow, red-muddy bricks. The originally painted joint network was not restored. Inside, a wooden spiral staircase leads to the women's gallery . The third room version from 1863 has been preserved, it was cleaned in 1994, the traces of use have been left.
In the east of Hagen, a Jewish cemetery was laid out at the end of the 18th century, outside the former fortifications , on which tombstones from the 19th and 20th centuries are today.
literature
- Horst-Dieter Krus : 700 years of Borgholz, 1291–1991. History of a country town in the Hochstift Paderborn . Borgentreich 1990, ISBN 3-9801168-5-9 .
- Rudolf Muhs: The Borgholz Synagogue. A unique relic of Jewish life in the Höxter district . In: Yearbook District Höxter , Vol. 18 (1997), pp. 163–176.
- Georg Dehio (founder), Ursula Quednau (ed.): North Rhine-Westphalia, Vol. 2: Westphalia ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '16.21 " N , 9 ° 15' 32.59" O