Synagogue Fiedlerstrasse 3 (Dresden)
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The former synagogue at Fiedlerstrasse 3 in Dresden's Johannstadt is a listed building in Germany. It served until 1950 and again since 2001 as the mortuary hall of the New Jewish Cemetery , in whose area it is located.
Hall of the Dead / Synagogue
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history
The building was built by Ernst Giese in 1866 as a mortuary hall in the New Jewish Cemetery . In 1903 the building was expanded thanks to support from the Marie Ascher Foundation . During a bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, the building burned down and was rebuilt in 1949/50 on behalf of the Dresden Jewish Community under the direction of the builder Warnatz according to plans by the architect Edmund Schuchardt . On June 18, 1950, the former death hall was consecrated as a synagogue by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger (Berlin). In 1988 extensive restorations were carried out. With the construction of the New Synagogue at a historical location in Dresden's old town , the building in Johannstadt has regained its former importance as a hall of the dead.
description
The simple building was built in the style of historicist design language with a dome on which there is a Star of David . The synagogue room, which is also simple, is located under a glass dome and offers space for 150 people. On the east side is the Torah shrine , where the Torah scrolls were kept. Since 2001, a black embroidered curtain has been covering the east side, where the Torah scrolls were until then. There is also a bima from which the Torah was read. Bruno Gimpel designed the memorial plaque for the soldiers who fell in World War I , which can be seen in the “Synagogue on the New Jewish Cemetery”. Two large marble tablets are to the left and right of the former Torah shrine. The left marble plaque contains the prayer in memory of the dead ( Kaddish ). On the right marble plaque it says:
" To commemorate the dead and as a memorial for the living, the Jewish Community of Dresden consecrated this plaque to its numerous brothers and sisters who succumbed to the murderous hand of fascism between 1933-1945 "
In front of the Torah shrine there are two candlesticks with two candles each, above the two tablets of the law with the ten commandments . On the right wall is an organ and a Hanukkah .
Fallen memorial
In front of the synagogue there is a large cubic memorial stone with Doric columns for those who died in the First World War of the Jewish community. This was created by Wilhelm Haller and contains 60 names of Dresden Jews who fell in World War I. On the front is a Star of David and a Hebrew inscription as well as the names of the fallen with the years 1914 to 1918. The memorial was financed with donations from Kommerzienrat Max Elb and was consecrated by Rabbi Jakob Winter on May 28, 1916 .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2005, p. 103.
- Cordula Führer (Red.): Evidence of Jewish culture. Memorial sites in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. (Series of publications by the foundation “New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum”) . Tourist Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-350-00780-5 .
- Kerstin Hagemeyer: Jewish life in Dresden. Exhibition on the occasion of the consecration of the new Dresden synagogue on November 9, 2001 . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-910005-27-6 .
See also
Web links
- New Israelitischer Friedhof in Dresden: The history of the celebration hall on juden-in-mittelachsen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cordula Führer, p. 226 f. (Synagogue of the Jewish Community in Dresden, Fiedlerstrasse 3)
- ↑ Kerstin Hagemeyer, p. 172 (8.5 Bruno Gimpel, The Dresden Synagogue)
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 14.7 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 36.4" E