Grünberg Synagogue (Silesia)

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Postcard with the synagogue in Grünberg (around 1920)

The synagogue in Grünberg in Silesia ( Zielona Góra in Polish ), a city in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship , was built in 1882/83. The synagogue stood on Glasserplatz, today Powstańców-Wielkopolskich-Platz.

description

The synagogue was built according to plans by the architect Gidon Weinert . The raw brick building was a central building with an attached apse. The prayer room was 13.8 meters long and 12.8 meters wide and had 350 seats. The height of the room was 10 meters and the external height of the building, up to the star at the top of the skylight, was 16.6 meters. The pulpit and lectern of the cantor were in front of the Torah shrine , which was covered with a dome and decorated with the gilded tablets of the law . The galleries were made of wood. The synagogue had an organ , and the organist was facing the congregation, not his back.

history

During the November pogroms in 1938 the synagogue building was set on fire and then the ruins were torn down. The city bought the property for 2,000 marks. A fire extinguisher was later built on the site of the former synagogue. After the basin was filled in in the 1960s, a grocery store was built on the property, which burned down in the 1970s. Today the building of the Grünberger Philharmonie is located on the former synagogue site.

See also

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).

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Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 35 ″  N , 15 ° 30 ′ 14 ″  E