Müntz synagogue

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The Müntz synagogue was located at Hauptstrasse 59 (today Raiffeisenstrasse 23) in the Titz district of Müntz in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

A total of 60 Jews lived in Müntz in 1844 and 48 Jews in 1857, which in 1857 corresponded to a population share of 12%. The village was therefore also called Jüdde-Müntz . From 1848 the Jewish synagogue community in Müntz belonged to the Jülich synagogue district as a subsidiary community .

synagogue

The synagogue was built in 1845/46 on a plot of land donated by Rebecca Jandorff (1808–1887) . Since the number of Jews fell rapidly from 1860 onwards, the synagogue was no longer used due to the number of participants ( minjan ) prescribed by religious law . In 1872 there were 28, then 17 in 1895, 14 in 1911 and only four in 1933.

An exact date for the end of the use for church services can no longer be determined. But it must have been after 1925.

The synagogue was a brick building with a gable roof on a square floor plan . The area was 68 m². The facade was structured strictly symmetrically. There were two high arched windows on both sides of the eaves . The architectural style showed forms of the first half of the 19th century.

The synagogue was looted and the interior was destroyed during the Reichspogromnacht on November 10, 1938, but the building was not set on fire. In 1939 Polish prisoners of war were housed there and the National Socialist People's Welfare was planning a kindergarten for 1940 . On October 17, 1940, the Müntz community bought the synagogue and property from the Jülich synagogue district for 800 Reichsmarks . At the end of the Second World War , the synagogue, like other houses in the village, was partially damaged by the effects of the war on the Rur front , but the outer walls were still there.

In 1954, the municipality paid an additional 1000 Deutsche Mark for the property in proceedings before the reparations chamber of the Aachen Regional Court . She now sold it to the then tenant who had the synagogue torn down in 1956. For decades only the foundation walls were left. Around the year 2000 the property was rebuilt with a residential building.

See also

literature

  • Michael Brocke (Ed.): Put a fire on your sanctuary. Destroyed synagogues in 1938. North Rhine-Westphalia (developed by the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History). Bochum 1999
  • Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia, part 1: Cologne district , Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3-7616-1322-1
  • Hermann-Josef Paulißen: Genealogy, family structure and economic conditions of the Jews in the northern Jülich region in the 19th century , publications of the Joseph Kuhl Society on the history of the city of Jülich and the Jülich region, ed. by Günter Bers and Wolfgang Herborn, Vol. 47, 2007
  • Peter Nieveler: The synagogue in (Titz-) Müntz , in synagogues in the Düren district: In memory of the Reichspogromnacht 75 years ago , Düren 2013, ISBN 978-3-930808-12-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.synagoge-roedingen.lvr.de/media/bilder/literatur/Literatur_Gruebel_2005.pdf

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 6.9 ″  E