Taharahaus (Bad Kissingen)

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Tahara house in Bad Kissingen
Architect's drawings for the construction of the Tahara House (1891)

The Tahara House in Bad Kissingen , a town in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia , was built in 1891 as part of an expansion of the Bad Kissingen Jewish cemetery .

description

The Tahara House was built according to plans by the builder Gillich in the late classicist style. A guard room, bed room, washing room, corpse room, utensil room and section room were housed in the building.

The red brick building has a central projection that is aligned with the burial ground. A flight of stairs leads to the triple arcade, the profiled arches of which rest on Doric-Tuscan columns. A rusticated base moves the building.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 . (not evaluated)

Web links

Commons : Tahara House  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ulrich Knufinke: Buildings of Jewish Cemeteries in Germany , Research Center for Jewish Architecture in Europe, Verlag M. Imhof, 2007, ISBN 3865682065 or ISBN 9783865682062 , page 213 ( excerpt )

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 34.7 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 55.9"  E