Synagogue castle
The Synagoge Burg was a synagogue in the town of Burg (near Magdeburg) in what is now Saxony-Anhalt . The building has been preserved and is a listed building .
The building at Bruchstrasse 9 is located directly on the southern bank of the Ihle .
history
The synagogue building was built in 1851 by a master builder who has not been handed down. It was in the yard of the property. A two-storey half-timbered house from the 18th century stood facing the street, but has not been preserved. This front building served the Jewish community as a residential and school building.
Its use as a synagogue was given up as early as 1893. The synagogue then served as a warehouse and workshop. The dilapidated building received a new roof in 1997/98 in order to ensure the preservation of the house.
architecture
The synagogue was built from red bricks as a hall building and facing east. The building has a gable roof . In the walls of the long sides there are large arched windows with archivolts above them . The cornice is decorated with coffered decor and tooth cut . On the east side of the building there is a lunette window in the gable . It emphasizes this site as the former location of the Torah shrine . The wooden tracery of the windows is delicately designed in the neo-Gothic style. The design of the synagogue is based on the normal church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The neo-Gothic decorations in particular are reminiscent of the Christian church architecture of that time. The self-image of the Jewish community aimed at integration in the middle of the 19th century becomes clear.
Inside the house there is a very high barrel vault . The vault is decorated with paintings. On a blue starry background there is a pictorial representation of a red glow of fire with gray-white clouds. The smoke and pillar of fire described with the appearance of God in the Old Testament is thus represented.
On the north and west side of L's is in the form of the women's gallery . The original liturgical inventory has not been preserved.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer, Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 140
- Guide through the Jewish Saxony-Anhalt , editor: Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg Potsdam 1998, ISBN 3-930850-78-8 , page 344 ff.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 19.6 " N , 11 ° 51 ′ 28.9" E