Dinslaken synagogue
The Dinslaken Synagogue was a Jewish place of worship in Dinslaken . The building was formerly the monastery church of the Marienkamp monastery , which was closed in 1808 , which the Jewish community took over and converted into a synagogue. It was located on the corner of Klosterstrasse and Kaiserstrasse (now Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse).
history
The first immigration of Jewish families to Dinslaken took place in the first half of the 14th century.
In the period from the end of the 14th to the beginning of the 16th century there are no known indications of Jewish life in Dinslaken.
After the plague pogrom , few Jews moved to Dinslaken again.
Patrons were the Counts of Kleve , who issued letters of protection. The number of Jews living in Dinslaken remained low until 1800.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the Jewish citizens of Dinslaken gathered for church services in private houses or they took part in church services in the neighboring synagogue communities of Holten or Duisburg .
As the community grew, the desire was to have their own church .
The financial situation allowed the realization of this plan.
1810 the Jewish community bought the church of the former convent Marie Kamp to them as a synagogue re use .
The monastery church was a late Gothic chapel with a turret , similar to the church of the Marienthal monastery .
The Jewish community had the building, which had fallen into disrepair, repaired so that it could be used again, now as a synagogue.
In the 1880s the synagogue was expanded, a mikveh was added and a new building at the same location replaced the old synagogue in 1894, where the buttresses of the old monastery church on the walls of the house were preserved.
The Israelitische Kultusgemeinde used it until it was destroyed in the pogrom night in 1938.
Today the residential and commercial building of the former branch of the Dresdner Bank stands here . A memorial plaque indicates the synagogue that stood here until 1938.
literature
- Rudolf Stampfuß , Anneliese Triller : History of the City of Dinslaken 1273–1973 (= contributions to the history and folklore of the Dinslaken district on the Lower Rhine . Volume 10 ). Publishing house PH. CW Schmidt-Degner & Co., Neustadt / Aisch 1973.
- Rüdiger Gollnick: Dinslaken (= Lower Rhine cities in the past and present ). Boss-Verlag, Kleve 1980, ISBN 3-922384-40-4 , 3. The abolition of the “Marienkamp” monastery, p. 169 .
Web links
- jewische-gemeinden.de, From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area
- altstadt-dinslaken.de, Jewish life in Dinslaken from the Middle Ages to 1938, pdf.
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 45.4 " N , 6 ° 44 ′ 6.1" E
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Jewish culture and history in Dinslaken in the database " KuLaDig " of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (With a historical plan of the city of Dinslaken from 1910 with the situation "am Doel" / "am Doelen"), accessed on December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ altstadt-dinslaken.de, 1938 expulsion of the Jewish population from Dinslaken