Gey synagogue

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Memorial plaque on the house at Broichstrasse 5 in Hürtgenwald. This is where the Gey synagogue stood.

The Gey synagogue stood in the Gey district in the Hürtgenwald community in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

A Jewish community in Gey was mentioned on January 1, 1866. Later, a small porch was built at Josef Meyer's house, Broichstrasse 5 . It was close to the street and only had two small windows. They were so high in the brickwork that you couldn't see inside the building. Religious celebrations were held there until around 1914. Josef Meyer was a prayer leader at the time .

Around 1930 the porch had become a dilapidated obstacle to traffic. The Geyer citizen, of Jewish faith, Seligmann Meyer, wanted to set up a butcher's shop there. Therefore the building was demolished. According to the plaque, however, the building was demolished to create living space. Later the building was actually used as living space and also as the Rößeler butcher's, which was run by the Rößeler family until 1988 (later Langenberg butcher's, from 2005 to 2014 Hallmanns; this local facility has been empty since 2016). A commemorative plaque was inaugurated on September 9, 2001 at Broichstrasse 5.

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  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichtswerkstatt-dueren.de
  2. ↑ Ludger Dowe in Synagogues in the Düren District , published in 2013 by the Working Group of the History Associations in the Düren District, 2013, ISBN 978-3-930808-12-0

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 50.8 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 20.1"  E