Synagogue (Eschenau)
The synagogue in Eschenau, a district of Obersulm in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1797 by the Jewish community of Eschenau . The house was sold by the Jewish community in 1904 and has served as a private house for various residential and commercial purposes ever since.
history
After disputes with the Jewish community in Affaltrach , whose synagogue in Affaltrach was shared by the Eschenau Jews, the Jewish community in Eschenau acquired a garden plot in the Reitgasse (today: Treutlinger Strasse 9) to build its own synagogue in 1795 . which was completed in 1797. In addition to the actual synagogue room, the building contained a small apartment for the cantor and a mikveh (ritual immersion bath) in the basement. Due to the small size of the community, there was initially no women's gallery, and it was not installed later either. By 1843 at the latest, the building also served temporarily as an Israelite denominational school until around 1860 . The Jewish students then attended the local elementary school, before a school merger with the Affaltrach Jewish community came about in 1880 and an Israelite denominational school existed again from 1880 to around 1900, which was once again located in the synagogue in Eschenau. After the Jewish community experienced its decline in the second half of the 19th century due to emigration and emigration and ultimately the denominational schools were also closed around 1900, the synagogue was sold in 1904.
Nothing on the building today reminds of its former use as a synagogue. There was once a Hebrew inscription above the entrance and the year 1797, but this was removed during a renovation. The windows on the upper floors once had round arches, but have now been replaced by rectangular windows. The ground floor has already been redesigned many times and was also used as a shop at times. Originally it had four windows on the gable side instead of only two as it is today. The right window on the eaves side was once the size of the door and served as a shop window during the commercial use of the building. The access to the mikveh on the gable side was walled up later.
literature
- Wolfram Angerbauer , Hans Georg Frank: Jewish communities in the district and city of Heilbronn. History, fates, documents . Heilbronn district, Heilbronn 1986 ( series of publications of the Heilbronn district . Volume 1).
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 13 " N , 9 ° 24 ′ 6.6" E