Hattingen synagogue

The synagogue in Hattingen was located at Bahnhofstrasse 8 in Hattingen and was inaugurated on September 13, 1872.

The synagogue was burned down by the National Socialists during the November pogroms in 1938 . The ruin was demolished in February 1939. The Torah scroll rescued from the burning synagogue was allegedly placed in the grave of the merchant Max Blume, who died in June 1939, at the Jewish cemetery in Hattingen .

Synagogue square with memorial stone "Against forgetting"

As a reminder, the memorial stone “Against Forgetting” by the Hattingen sculptor Ulla H'loch-Wiedey has been on Synagogenplatz since 1987.

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945
• Jewish life in Hattingen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Svenja Hanusch: Jewish life in the city. In: WAZ, November 9, 2012
2. ↑ From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area
3. ↑ Thomas Weiß: The Hattingen Synagogue. Hattingen City Archives, 2006

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '57.9 "  N , 7 ° 10' 53.7"  E