Synagogue Hohe Weide
The Hohe Weide Synagogue is the synagogue of the Hamburg Jewish Community . It was designed by the architects Karl Heinz Wongel and Klaus May and inaugurated in 1960.
story
After the Second World War , the newly founded community first used the restored synagogue in Oppenheimer-Wohnstift in Kielortallee from September 1945 and, on high public holidays, the synagogue in the Jewish old people's home in Sedanstraße. From the mid-1950s, the construction of a new synagogue was considered and in 1956 a plot of land on the Hohen Weide in Eimsbüttel was made available by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In the following year the municipality announced a limited competition, which was won by the architects Karl Heinz Wongel and Klaus May. On November 9, 1958, twenty years after the November pogrom , the cornerstone was laid by Mayor Max Brauer The synagogue was inaugurated on September 9, 1960.
The police have been guarding the synagogue and the Joseph Carlebach Education Center around the clock since the early 1990s . A section of the Hohe Weide road is closed to motor vehicles due to the risk of attacks.
On October 4, 2020, shortly before the anniversary of the Halle attack , a man with a folding spade attacked a student who was wearing a kippah and was on his way to the synagogue for a Sukkot celebration . The victim was taken to hospital with serious head injuries. The 29-year-old perpetrator was overpowered by security forces and then arrested. The other visitors were brought to safety. According to information from the dpa , the attacker, a German with Kazakh roots, who last lived unannounced in Hamburg-Langenhorn and previously in Berlin , had a piece of paper with a swastika in his pocket. According to the police, he made an “extremely confused impression” that his interrogation was “very difficult”. Several data carriers were seized by the police in the Hamburg apartment. Obvious evidence of accomplices, right-wing attitudes or structures were initially not found there. In Berlin he had lived in a temporary residence for repatriates, refugees and Jewish immigrants. During this time, an incident involving a knife was reported. The attack, which the investigators rated as an attempted murder, was apparently anti-Semitic. Numerous politicians and religious representatives unanimously condemned the attack. On October 6, 2020, the suspect was placed in a psychiatric facility by the examining magistrate.
description
The building ensemble is located on the corner of Hohe Weide / Heymannstraße, the east side of the synagogue faces the corner. The synagogue, a community center and the apartment for the rabbi open onto an atrium. The modern, simple building is clad on the outside with white artificial stone panels. The synagogue is pentagonal and has a pentagonal copper roof, which is crowned by a Star of David . Access is via a foyer that connects the synagogue and the community hall. The metal exterior doors were designed by the artist Traute Beermann. Above it is the Hebrew Psalm inscription: "Peace dwell in your walls, in your houses security." (122.7 EU )
On the eastern side of the interior is the Torah shrine , on the two opposite sides the women's gallery . The Bima is following the example of many aschkenasisch- Orthodox synagogues, the center of the room. The five high windows on each side of the room were designed by the painter Herbert Spangenberg and show the Jewish symbols of the Star of David, tablets of the law , Torah scroll , menorah and besamim box .
The synagogue room can be expanded with a smaller hall, which can also serve as a separate prayer room. There is also a mikveh , an event hall and other community facilities in the building . The community also uses the building of the former Talmud Torah school at Grindelhof.
Since 1992 the congregation has owned the Hanukkah chandelier from the former Altona congregation from the 17th century. Its foot and its column were found again in the Altona Museum and supplemented.
literature
- Saskia Rohde: Synagogue and community center of the new Jewish community in Hamburg. In: Arno Herzig (Ed.): The Jews in Hamburg 1590 to 1990. 1991, pp. 669–677.
- Anna Menny: Between remembering and new beginnings - the laying of the foundation stone of the synagogue in Hohen Weide on November 9, 1958. In: Hamburg key documents to German-Jewish history. August 21, 2017. doi : 10.23691 / jgo: article-188.de.v1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ NDR: Jewish student in front of the Hamburg synagogue seriously injured on October 5, 2020.
- ^ Georg Mascolo and Ronen Steinke : Attack in front of the synagogue in Hamburg , Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 4, 2020
- ^ Attack on Jewish students , Frankfurter Allgemeine, October 4, 2020
- ↑ 26-year-old attacked near synagogue - investigators see attempted murder , Die Welt, October 4, 2020
- ↑ a b Attack in front of the synagogue: suspect in psychiatry , ndr.de, October 6, 2020
- ↑ "Disgusting Attack" , tagesschau.de, October 4, 2020
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 22.9 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 9 ″ E