Fellheim synagogue

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Former Fellheim synagogue (2019) after being dismantled between 2013 and 2015

The synagogue Fellheim was from 1786 to 9 November 1938, the worship of the Jewish community of Fellheim in Fellheim in today Unterallgäu .

history

As early as 1716, the local Jews received permission from the Reichlin-Meldegg Freiherrschaft to build a synagogue . The prince-bishop of Augsburg, Alexander Sigismund von der Pfalz , objected to the building . In the following years there was a prayer room for religious acts in Fellheim. In 1786, the east-facing , representative, three-story, fifteen meter long and ten meter wide synagogue was built in the Baroque style. In 1860 it was extensively renovated in neo-Romanesque style. It had a tower-like staircase to the women's gallery and a roof turret with a bell.

The destruction of the synagogue during the November pogroms was blamed on a group of cheesemakers who came from the neighboring village of Boos on the evening of November 10, 1938. Two hours later, SS people came on trucks from Memmingen and continued the attacks on Jewish institutions until Fellheimer Citizens vigorously opposed it. After that, there were no more services . During the war, the building served as a storage facility for aircraft engines and parts.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War , there were plans to restore the synagogue for the remaining Jews from Memmingen and the region. Plans for the transformation as a Roman Catholic Church did not come to fruition. In 1950 the building, which was covered with plain tiles, was sold and converted into a tenement house.

In 2007, the Fellheim community acquired the residential building in order to convert it at a cost of 1.7 million euros. The aim was to make the building recognizable as a sacred building, to establish it as a place of learning for the Jewish rural community and to give it a new, non-sacred use. In the approved plans from 2012, the reconstruction of the women's galleries, the external staircase and the destroyed Torah shrine with new materials are planned. Citizens of the Fellheim community (via: Förderkreis Synagoge Fellheim eV), the Bavarian state and the Sparkasse Memmingen-Lindau-Mindelheim took part in the project . The building has been dismantled, renovated and remodeled since 2013. The redesigned building opened on October 25, 2015. For the dismantling, the community Fellheim and the Förderkreis Synagoge Fellheim e. V. 2017 the monument protection medal of the Free State of Bavaria.

To the east, following the synagogue, is the associated Jewish cemetery .

literature

Site of the Jewish cemetery 2012
  • Fellheim an der Iller. An illustrated tour through the former Jewish town center of Fellheim . Edited by History, Customs and Chronicle Working Group in cooperation with the Office for Rural Development and the Fellheim Municipality (2007)
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments Bavaria III. Swabia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1989 (update planned for 2006–2008)
  • City archive Munich (ed.): The Rosenthals. The rise of a Jewish family of antiquaries to world fame. With contributions by Elisabeth Angermair, Jens Koch, Anton Löffelmeier, Eva Ohlen and Ingo Schwab. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-205-77020-X (used)
  • Michael Habres: The restoration of the former synagogue in Fellheim . (PDF) In: Monument Preservation Information , No. 163, March 2016, pp. 23–26

Web links

Commons : Fellheim Synagogue  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edith Raim: Justice between dictatorship and democracy: Reconstruction and prosecution of Nazi crimes in West Germany 1945–1949. Zugl. Habil.-Schr. Univ. Augsburg 2012; Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-70411-2 , p. 830, limited preview in the Google book search
  2. ^ Former synagogue in Fellheim opened for the first time after renovation . In: Memminger Zeitung . September 4, 2015 ( all-in.de [accessed on March 29, 2016]).
  3. ^ Fellheim (Unterallgäu district) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue. Alemannia Judaica; accessed on May 22, 2015
  4. ↑ Reconstruction of the synagogue in Fellheim: 300,000 euros are still missing .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Memminger Zeitung , May 16, 2012; Retrieved October 24, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.all-in.de  

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 9.6 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 8.2 ″  E