Hagenbach Synagogue
"The community decided to build a new one on Ludwigstrasse; dedicated in May 1885, the new synagogue seated 70 men and 50 women...The day after Pogrom Night, Nazis from Hagenbach and neighboring villages broke into the synagogue and lit a bonfire of furniture, prayer books and ritual objects inside the building; the flames gutted the building, but not before the Torah shrine had been stolen...Torn down after the pogrom, the synagogue was handed over to the Reich Association for German Jews and, later, to the Finance Ministry. The building was returned to the Jewish community of Rhineland-Pfalz in January 1950, and sold five years later. The new owners built a residential property in its place."
Bronagh Bowerman
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., Führer durch die Jüdische Gemeindeverwaltung und Wohlfahrtspflege in Deutschland 1923-1933, Andreas Nachama, Simon Hermann [Eds.], [publisher] Edition Hentrich, 1995., “und dies ist die Pforte des Himmels”: Synagogen Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland, Will Schmid, Stefan Fischbach and Ingrid Westerhoff [Eds.], publication initiated by Joachim Glatz and Meier Schwarz, [publisher] Phillipp Von Zabern, 2005., Synagogen Internet Archiv, www.synagogen.info
Details
| Date Added | Apr 20, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Synagogue |
| Country | DE |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| City | Hagenbach |
| Exhibits | Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany |
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