Leobschütz synagogue
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 4.3 ″ N , 17 ° 49 ′ 32.2 ″ E
The Leobschütz synagogue was the house of God and the spiritual and cultural center of the Jewish community in the Upper Silesian district town of Leobschütz , in the district of the same name that belonged to Germany until 1945 .
Since there were only places of worship and prayer rooms in private houses for the Jewish community, they began building a synagogue in the oriental style in 1864 . It was located on König-Ottokar-Strasse in the center of the village and was inaugurated in September 1865. A striking feature was the four-storey square tower with its tourelles on all four corners, which clearly towered over the prayer room.
In the Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938, the synagogue was Nazi - thugs burned down. The ruin was torn down, not least because Jewish life was practically wiped out through displacement and deportation / murder . Today the city belongs to Poland and there is a meadow with a memorial stone on the site of the former synagogue .
See also
literature
- Heinz Bartke: Leobschütz was so beautiful , self-published, Fürstenfeldbruck 1986 (without ISBN)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Virtual shtetl, information on the homepage of the Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich w Warszawie ( Museum of the History of Polish Jews ), Warszawa, accessed on March 5, 2013
