Synagogue in Haeckelstrasse

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The Haeckelstrasse synagogue behind the forecourt, which has been separated off as a garden

The synagogue on Haeckelstrasse in Hanover is the synagogue of the Hanover Jewish Community . The location of the sacred building from the 1960s as part of the Jewish Community Center Haeckelstraße is Haeckelstraße 10 in the Bult district with reference to Freundallee.

history

Inscription in a travertine plate with the name of the architect Hermann Zvi Guttmann

After the two older predecessor buildings in the Calenberger Neustadt in the streets Auf dem Berge and Bergstrasse , where the New Synagogue was destroyed during the so-called “ Reichskristallnacht ” during the Nazi era, on November 9, 1960 , in the post-war period in the foundation stone for a new synagogue building was laid on Haeckelstrasse . At a time interval between 1962 and 1963, according to plans by the architect Zvi Guttmann and on behalf of the Jewish community, another Jewish religious building was built in Hanover, here as part of the community center with a high-rise residential building .

On November 10, 1963, the synagogue was inaugurated with the help of the former community rabbi Emil Schorsch .

Since then, the services have been held by the prayer leaders and cantors Norbert Prager , Josef Zwiebel, Julius Stolberg, Simon Ben Zeev, Emil Levy and David Polnauer, among others .

In the year of the World Exhibition Expo 2000 , Andrei Sitnov took over the leadership of the church services.

Building description

The menorah on the parabolic building facing Freundallee

As part of the Jewish community center, a building with organic shapes was built on the ground plan of a parabola , which shows the relief of a menorah on its eastern outer wall facing Freundallee . While the furnishings of the house are based on the traditional culture that has been handed down, with a lectern in the middle of the synagogue space and a separation of the 180 seats for men and 120 for women, the building and the "forecourt, designed as a garden, form a cautiously harmonious unit."

See also

Web links

Commons : Synagogue and Community Center Haeckelstrasse (Hanover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Keyword Haeckelstrasse 6-10 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 127
  2. ↑ a b c Hermann Boockhoff, Jürgen Knotz (arr.): Synagoge. In: Architecture in Hanover since 1900 , ed. from the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects, Callwey, Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-7667-0599-0 and ISBN 3-7667-0599-7 , (p.) I 14
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Schulze : Synagogues. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 614f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 4.2 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 16.4 ″  E