Jewish prayer house and birthplace of Kurt Löwenstein

Community life and school reform: The Bleckede synagogue community, which was founded in 1844 and to which Dahlenburg and later Hitzacker also belonged, was housed here and used the upper floor as a prayer room. This was also the birthplace of the reform pedagogue Dr. Kurt Löwenstein (1885-1939). A member of the Reichstag since 1920 and head of municipal education in Berlin, Löwenstein advocated school fees based on income, expansion of school lunches and workers' baccalaureate courses. In 1933 he emigrated to France, where he succumbed to a heart attack in May 1939.