Ottweiler Synagogue
"We know for certain, however, that a synagogue was inaugurated on Schlosshof in 1803, and that it was moved to a larger building in 1840... The synagogue’s interior, furniture and ritual objects were destroyed on Pogrom Night;... The defunct community sold the synagogue site to the municipality after the pogrom...and in 1992, 30 years after the synagogue ruins were demolished, a combined commercial and residential building, to which a memorial plaque has been affixed, was built on the site."
Heike Zaun Goshen
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com
Notes
Sources: Alemannia Judaica, www.alemannia-judaica.de , The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001.
Details
| Date Added | Feb 05, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Synagogue |
| Country | DE |
| State | Saarland |
| City | Ottweiler |
| Exhibits | Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany |
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