Jülich synagogue

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The synagogue in Jülich

The Jülich synagogue was located at Grünstraße 35 in Jülich in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Synagogues are attested in Grünstraße for 1349, 1461, 1771 and 1783. The building was rebuilt in the late 1850s. The inauguration took place on September 20 and 21, 1862.

“The church was set back in a front garden, which was separated from the street by a wall and a gate. It was a narrow, gable brick building on a rectangular floor plan. On the east side there was a small annex that housed the Torah shrine inside. The gable with a round window in the middle and round arch frieze with small consoles had a rectangular finish. There were round windows on the sides. The entrance situation was concise with the rectangular door and the arched window directly above it. The bid boards sat on the top of the gable. "

In 1924 the synagogue was rebuilt. A west gallery was added inside . It could be reached via a covered staircase to the left of the main entrance.

Many parts of the interior furnishings were taken from the previous houses of worship in the new synagogue, e.g. B. the circumcision bench , and other utensils.

At the 9./10. In November 1938 riots against the Jews organized throughout the Reich (" Reichskristallnacht "), the synagogue in Jülich was desecrated by burning the cult objects in front of the synagogue. The building remained intact. The Nazis in Jülich celebrated this day, on which nationwide the unsuccessful march to the Feldherrnhalle in Munich on November 9, 1923 was remembered, with a march at the Eleonoren Bastion (west of the town hall on the Schwanenteich). There, in 1932, the "Pg" party comrade Herbert Zimmermann was shot dead in a street battle. During the devastating bomb attack on Jülich on November 16, 1944, the synagogue was badly damaged and the outer walls remained standing.

In 1958, the remains of the building were demolished when an apartment block was being built there. In 1983 a memorial plaque was placed here and in 1997 the section of Grünstraße on which the synagogue had stood was renamed “An der Synagoge”.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guido von Büren in Synagogues in the Düren District , published in 2013 by the Working Group of the History Associations in the Düren District, ISBN 978-3-930808-12-0

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 23.3 "  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 21.6"  E