Synagogue Ober-Erlenbach

Former synagogue in Ober-Erlenbach

The profaned synagogue in Ober-Erlenbach , a district of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in the Hochtaunus district in Hesse , still stands today at Bornstrasse 14 and is a listed building .

building

In the period around 1855 there was a synagogue in the small house with a courtyard (86 m²) that has probably existed for a long time . The exact year of construction and the time of the rededication to a place of worship are unknown. The ritual bath is said to have been in the neighboring building at the rear.

After the First World War, the use as a synagogue was given up and the services in the neighboring community of Rodheim vor der Höhe were attended. The building was rebuilt and rented for residential purposes, from 1924 to the political municipality. In 1935 it was expropriated without compensation in favor of the political community.

In the restitution proceedings after 1945, the JRSO (Jewish Restitution Successor Organization) sold the property to a private individual.

Since 1988 there has been a memorial plaque on the building , which reminds of its earlier use as a synagogue.

Jewish community

In the 17th / 18th A few Jewish families will have lived in Ober-Erlenbach by the 19th century . A separate community existed in the 19th century. Five Jewish families are known for the year 1812. In 1877 the Jewish community - together with Ober- and Nieder-Eschbach - comprised 49 people.

The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe .

Around 1924 the Jewish community in Ober-Erlenbach dissolved itself. The remaining five Jews joined the community in Rodheim. After 1933 only the Jordan family lived in Ober-Erlenbach . They had a general store on Bornstrasse; Its setting on fire during the Reichskristallnacht could be prevented by the intervention of a Petterweiler citizen. In 1941 the family had to move to the former synagogue and - with the exception of their son Heinz, who was able to emigrate to South America in the winter of 1939 - were deported to Theresienstadt on September 16, 1942. A stele with a plaque commemorates their deportation.

literature

• Thea Altaras : Synagogues and Jewish ritual immersion baths in Hesse - What happened since 1945? Second updated and expanded edition, edited from the estate, Die Blauen Bücher , Königstein im Taunus 2007, ISBN 978-3-7845-7794-4 , pp. 320–322.

Web links

Commons : Synagoge Ober-Erlenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the Bad Homburg monument, Bornstrasse 14  in the German Digital Library
• Alemannia Judaica: Ober-Erlenbach. In: Synagogues in the region. Working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region, accessed on June 9, 2016 . 
• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Bad Homburg vd Höhe (Hesse). In: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Retrieved on June 9, 2016 (in the Ober-Erlenbach section). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Bornstrasse 14 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse . Retrieved June 9, 2016.
2. ↑ Brunhilde Hoffmann: "It happened among us ..." The fate of the Jewish Jordan family in Ober-Erlenbach. (No longer available online.) In: Exhibitions. Archived from the original on June 11, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2016 . 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.   

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 33.9 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 49.3"  E