Untergrombach synagogue

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Memorial plaque for the Jewish victims of the Nazi rule in Untergrombach
Residential building on the remains of the synagogue

The synagogue in Untergrombach , a district of Bruchsal in the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg , was destroyed during the Nazi era .

history

The origins of the Jewish community ( Kehillah ) in Untergrombach go back to the time of the Thirty Years War . The number of Jewish residents living in Untergrombach increased until around 1864. At that time 130 people of Jewish faith were counted in Untergrombach. In 1933 the synagogue in Untergrombach was not closed. At that time there were 32 Jewish residents in Untergrombach, seven of whom were known by name and listed on a memorial plaque in Obergrombacher Strasse, who were later killed in the atrocities of National Socialism.

The Jewish community was relatively wealthy. The tobacco wholesaler Meerapfel Söhne still existed in 1933 ; The existence of a leather wholesaler is also documented.

Synagogue construction

While the Jewish cemetery on the boundary of Obergrombach was used jointly by the Jewish communities in the surrounding areas, each individual community had its own prayer room or synagogue. In Untergrombach, a church was probably built in the first quarter of the 19th century - the dates 1815 and 1827 are being discussed - on what is now Synagogenstrasse 6/7. Presumably the synagogue also served as the home of the religion teacher. Since the development of this street was evidently already very narrow in the 1930s and there was fear of the fire spreading to a neighboring barn, the synagogue in Untergrombach was not set on fire during the November pogrom in 1938 . The interior was completely demolished and the Torah scroll stolen. Later - possibly in the post-war period - the building was torn down except for the outer walls of the ground floor. The remains that remained became the basis of a new building that is now a residential building.

Synagogenstrasse, which was renamed Sonnwendstrasse in 1933, has had its original name since 1990.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 12 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elise Godlewsky . In: Memorial book for the Karlsruhe Jews.