Synagogues in Leipzig

Most of the synagogues in Leipzig fell victim to the bombs of World War II or were profaned during the Nazi era. The Brody synagogue is the only one in the Leipzig city area that still has its original function.

In the pogrom night on 9/10 November 1938, the large community synagogue , the Ez Chaim synagogue and the outbuildings of the celebration hall in the New Israelite Cemetery were destroyed. The intact celebration hall itself was demolished three months later at the instigation of the city administration.

The names of abandoned sacred buildings are in italics in the list.

Surname	Location	Built	Architects	particularities
Great Community Synagogue ("the Temple")	formerly Gottschedstraße 3, corner of Zentralstraße	1854–1855 (destroyed 9/10 November 1938)	Otto Simonson	the liberal synagogue was the first and at the same time the most important synagogue in Leipzig; Due to the shape of the property, the synagogue had a trapezoidal floor plan; On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the synagogue was destroyed by arson, and since 2001 there has been a memorial at its former location, which traces the floor plan
Brody Synagogue	Keilstrasse 4	1897–1898 1903–1904 (reconstruction)	Georg Wünschmann (construction of the double house) Oscar Schade (conversion to a synagogue)	The building at Keilstrasse 4/6, built as a double dwelling, was redesigned for the Brody synagogue at the instigation of its later owner Friedrich Gutfreund and provided with a prayer room on the two lower floors; as a result of the pogrom night, the synagogue was profaned and served as a soap factory until 1945; After the room was renovated, it was used as a synagogue again, and in 1993 the exterior and interior were renovated true to the original
Ez Chaim Synagogue	formerly Apels Garten 4 (originally Otto-Schill-Strasse 6-8)	1922 (destroyed on November 9/10, 1938)	Gustav plum	largest orthodox synagogue in Saxony; Thanks to a foundation by the Leipzig fur trader Chaim Eitingon , the Talmud Torah Association was able to apply for the conversion of the Leipzig gymnastics community's gymnasium into a synagogue in 1921, and in 1927 the first floor of the adjoining building was converted into a weekday prayer room; the synagogue was destroyed during the pogrom night in 1938 the remains of the wall were removed a few weeks later
Former Beth Jehuda Synagogue	Färberstrasse 11 (courtyard building)	1921 (installation of the synagogue)		The building, which was acquired by Louise Ariowitsch in 1915 and used several times, housed Jewish community rooms, among other things, and the synagogue was founded in 1921; after the devastation of Kristallnacht closed the synagogue in 1939, from 1940 to 1943 it was then used as a homeless shelter as a "Jewish house", in 1946 took place in the synagogue, the first Seder after the Second World War, instead, after the house has not been used more as a synagogue , the The building and the former mikveh for the ritual immersion bath have been preserved
Celebration hall in the New Israelite Cemetery	formerly Delitzscher Strasse 224	1926–1928 (canceled in 1939)	Wilhelm Haller	Axially emphasized three-wing complex, in the receding middle part a dome-crowned high party hall with a square floor plan in the style of Art Deco ; the outbuildings fell victim to the arson attacks on November 9, 1938, the celebration hall remained undestroyed, the city administration pushed ahead with efforts to demolish it under the pretext of endangering and "defacing the cityscape"; on February 24, 1939 the hall was blown up

In addition, there were the following synagogues and prayer houses in Leipzig:

Tictine Synagogue , formerly Brühl 71 (founded 1850, lost in the war)
Merkin Synagogue, Ritterstraße 7 (founded in 1830, building preserved)
Bochnia Synagogue , formerly Gerberstrasse 48/50 (war loss)
Jassyer Synagogue , formerly Gerberstrasse 48/50 (war loss)
Kolomea Synagogue , formerly Berliner Straße 4 (loss of war)
Krakow Synagogue , formerly Berliner Strasse 10 (war loss)
Ohel-Jacob-Synagoge , formerly Pfaffendorfer Straße 4 (founded 1922, lost in the war)
Verein-Mischnajos-Synagoge , formerly Humboldtstrasse 24 (founded in 1909, lost in the war)
Hindenburg Synagogue (24th Synagogue), formerly Humboldtstrasse 24 (founded 1916/17, lost in the war)
Orthodox prayer house of Rabbi Israel Friedmann, Eckhaus Leibnizstraße 24, corner Hinrichsenstraße (founded around 1900, building preserved)
Ahwat Thora Synagogue , formerly Färberstrasse 6 (founded in 1907, lost in the war)
Lviv Synagogue , formerly Schützenstrasse 7 (founded around 1830, lost in the war)
Bikur Cholim Synagogue, Eisenbahnstraße 9, 1st floor (building preserved)
Schaare-Zedek Synagogue in the courtyard building of the “Schillerlaube” restaurant, Schillerweg 31 (founded in 1922, building preserved)
Prayer house in a residential building , formerly Aurelienstraße 14 (demolished due to dilapidation)
Tifereth Synagogue , formerly Eberhardstraße 11 (today parking lot north of the hotel "The Westin Leipzig", lost in the war)

literature

Josef Reinhold: Between departure and perseverance. Jews and the Jewish community in Leipzig during the 19th century. Saxon Printing and Publishing House, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-933442-32-X .
Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Sachsen II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 .
Barbara Kowalzik: We were your neighbors. The Jews in Leipzig's Waldstrasse district. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-9805368-1-5 .
The architectural and art monuments of Saxony. City of Leipzig. The sacred buildings. (edited by Heinrich Magirius and Hanna-Lore Fiedler), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, vol. 1 pp. 135–137, 791–803, ISBN 3-422-00568-4 .
Adolf Diamant: Chronicle of the Jews in Leipzig. Ascension, annihilation and a new beginning. Verlag Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz u. Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-910186-08-4 .
Bernd-Lutz Lange: Jewish traces in Leipzig. A companion through the city. Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-86151-049-9 .