Cosel Synagogue (Upper Silesia)

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 55 ″  N , 18 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E

Cosel Synagogue (Upper Silesia)​

Poland

Synagogue in Cosel (around 1920)

The synagogue in Cosel (Upper Silesia) , a district of Kędzierzyn-Koźle in the powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski in the Polish Opole Voivodeship , was built in 1886. The synagogue in the style of Neo-Romanesque was on Ratiborer place. It was inaugurated on September 10, 1886 by Rabbi Ferdinand Rosenthal .

The synagogue was destroyed in the November pogrom in 1938 . To the applause of the curious, the Star of David was overthrown from the dome . A short time later the ruins were demolished.

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).

Web links

• Description at Virtuelles Schtetl (English)