Herborn synagogue
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Herborn Synagogue is the name given to the synagogues of the Jewish community in the city of Herborn in today's Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .
middle Ages
In the late Middle Ages there was a Jewish community in Herborn that also ran a synagogue . In 1377 and 1398 it is mentioned as a Jewish school . The community was later driven out, so that there was no synagogue in Herborn for centuries.
Modern times
Due to the anti-Jewish religious policy in the strictly reformed county of Nassau-Dillenburg , to which Herborn belonged, the arrival of Jews again came relatively late. It was not until the middle of the 17th century that a community was formed again. Around 1677, the southern half of the Kornmarkt 22 building came into Jewish ownership and was now used as a synagogue by the Jewish community. There were also classrooms and a mikveh here .
In 1875 the historical synagogue had become too small. The congregation moved its church service room into a larger, inconspicuous half-timbered building behind the district court, which originally did not serve this purpose. The previously used synagogue was profaned . The construction of a new synagogue was repeatedly considered, for the first time in 1880, but the funds were insufficient. In 1928 the community tried again to build a new synagogue because the building behind the district court was in disrepair. The Jewish community asked the magistrate to provide a building site free of charge. In 1929 the draft of a new synagogue with 64 places for men and 48 for women was submitted. In February 1932, the city council announced a financial grant for the construction. A plot of land on the corner of Mühlgasse and Schulhofstrasse, opposite the high school, was planned as the building site. However, the plans could no longer be carried out before 1933 and were then futile.
Tyranny and the Holocaust
In the November pogrom of 1938 the synagogue was set on fire and the roof structure burned down. The last 14 Jewish residents of Herborn were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on August 28, 1942, but also directly to extermination camps. The synagogue building was demolished in 1982.
See also
literature
- Thea Altaras : Synagogues and Jewish ritual immersion baths in Hesse - What happened since 1945? 2nd edition, Königstein im Taunus 2007, ISBN 978-3-7845-7794-4 , pp. 215-217.
- Working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region: Alemannia Judaica. Herborn (Lahn-Dill district) .
- Ursula Krause-Schmitt: Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933-1945 . Vol. 1/2. Hessen II: District of Giessen and Kassel. Frankfurt 1996, p. 114.