Synagogue on Westenriederstrasse Munich

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Left side, penultimate house: Metiviér synagogue. Sepia drawing by L. Huber (1889)

The synagogue on Westenriederstrasse in Munich was the first newly built synagogue of the Israelite religious community in Munich, founded in 1815 . It was a few steps away from today's Viktualienmarkt and existed until the inauguration of the then new main synagogue on Herzog-Max-Straße in 1887.

Building

Inner space. Watercolor by an unknown hand (around 1825)

Jean Baptiste Métivier was entrusted with the design of the synagogue, and since 1824 he was the royal building officer. The building plot was located in the existing row of houses running in an east-west direction. Since the Torah shrine in synagogues must always be on the side facing Jerusalem , in this case the eastern side, but houses there and on the west side, it was impossible to create the entrance opposite the Torah shrine, as usual. Métivier therefore built the entrances for men and women on both sides of the classicist facade facing the street in a small porch. A vestibule led into the temple. The interior fittings of the synagogue were also made by Métivier.

history

Immediately after it was founded, the new Munich Jewish Community decided to build a synagogue in February 1815. The authorities were also interested in this project, as it should make it possible to better monitor the Jewish community, which until then had been scattered in various private households and their own - but now much too small - premises in Tal 13. The community favored a central location, the city wanted a place further outside. After various construction sites had been considered, the authorities finally forced the building on Theaterstrasse, which was not yet centrally located at the time and was renamed Westenriederstrasse in 1848, under threat of fines. The community acquired the property in 1822, and the foundation stone was laid two years later. The inauguration in 1826 was personally attended by the new King Ludwig I - seven years before the first Protestant church in Munich existed; the inauguration speech was given by Rabbi Hirsch Aub . King Ludwig I, father, Max I Joseph , had donated four columns made of Tegernsee marble for the building.

Over the decades, the synagogue became too small for the rapidly growing community, so a new building was considered from the mid-1860s, although it was only inaugurated in 1887 with the new main synagogue on Herzog-Max-Straße - this time in a central location the city. In 1888 the land on Westenriederstrasse was auctioned off and the dilapidated buildings demolished in 1889.

In the same year a residential and commercial building was built in its place, which was destroyed in the Second World War. For a long time there was a vacant lot at the site of the synagogue built by Métivier. Among other things, consideration was given to building a synagogue there for the liberal Munich community of Beth Shalom . In the district committee Maxvorstadt there was support for this idea.

From February 2011, Baywobau will again build a residential and commercial building at this point. During excavation work that preceded the actual construction work, the remains of the kennel wall and a shell tower were found.

rabbi

The first rabbi at the synagogue was Hirsch Aub , and Joseph Perles was the last rabbi in office until the new main synagogue on Herzog-Max-Straße was built .

literature

Web links

Commons : Synagogue on Westenriederstrasse Munich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ^ Hirsch Aub: Speech at the inauguration of the synagogue in Munich on April 21, 1826 , Karl Wolf, Munich 1826 , accessed on March 12, 2012
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The dream of your own synagogue. The liberal Jewish community Beth Shalom is looking for a new domicile - financing is still unclear , February 23, 2009, p. 53
  3. ↑ Martin Bernstein: Risen from the pit. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 9, 2011, accessed on April 27, 2015 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 5.6 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 41.2"  E