Dornum synagogue
The former synagogue in Dornum is the only East Frisia that has largely been preserved in its original state . The Jewish community in Dornum used it from 1841 to November 7, 1938. The last Jewish residents left Dornum in 1940. Today the building serves as a memorial and a Jewish museum. The sponsor is the Synagogue Dornum Association .
history
A synagogue in Dornum is first mentioned around 1730. The synagogue in Dornum, which is still preserved today, was built by the local community in 1841. The Dornum Jews took the money for this from a Christian moneylender, with houses and valuables belonging to the Jewish families being given as security. In the almost 100 years that followed, the municipality modernized the building several times. The synagogue received electric light in 1920. However, heating was never installed. This posed a problem in the winter months as the soil was all tamped clay. In the following years many Jews left the place for economic reasons. The rise of the National Socialists to power intensified this trend. By the end of 1933, a third of the Jews had already left Dornum. In August 1933, Hohe Strasse, on which the synagogue and many Jewish apartments were located, was renamed Adolf-Hitler- Strasse. After 1933 the synagogue in Dornum was hardly used any more, because the required number of ten male worshipers for a minjan was no longer achieved. Wilhelm Rose, the last head of the community, finally sold the synagogue on November 7, 1938 for 600 Reichsmarks to the local master carpenter August Teßmer, whose house was directly adjacent to the synagogue building. From then on, he used the building as a furniture store. Rose transferred the sales proceeds, which were intended for the Jewish aid association, to the regional rabbinate in Emden . During the November pogroms in 1938 , local SA and SS members broke into the building and stole furnishings, which they then burned in the market square.
After the Second World War , the former Jewish house of worship served as a furniture store, fuel store and business premises. In 1990 the support association "Synagoge Dornum" was founded, whose goals are the preservation and restoration of the synagogue in Dornum, the maintenance and care of the Jewish cemetery and the creation of a permanent exhibition on the Jewish history of Dornum. In 1991 the synagogue was restored with funds from the preservation authorities and the municipality of Dornum. Since then it has served as a memorial and information center.
exhibition
The permanent exhibition is divided into the areas of history , culture and religion . There are also changing annual exhibitions.
Web links
- Memorial site
- Dornum synagogue near Alemannia Judaica
- Journey to the Jewish East Friesland , publisher: Ostfriesische Landschaft - Kulturagentur, Aurich 2013; P. 12 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Fraenkel: Dornum. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-753-5 ; Pp. 478-486
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Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 51.6 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 43.4" E