Second synagogue in Güstrow

after Mastaler:

Stadtarchiv Güstrow (StA), StadtaktenBau der II. jüdischen Synagoge in der Schnoienstraße im Jahre 1826.

After the wars of liberation against Napoleon, a noticeable tolerance towards the Jewish population had set in and so it became possible to build synagogues in the country again [...] Since the Jewish community did not yet have its own prayer house in 1825, a room in one of their apartments had to be used for this purpose, where they gathered for worship, prayer and instruction.- cf. a. StA, Meckl.-Staatskalender of 1820: "... 28 Jewish families lived in the town ..." To remedy this state of affairs, in 1826 the city ceded to the ever-expanding Israeli community the former 7th apartment of the Ratsbauhof in Schnoienstraße for an annual rent of 24 Rt to build its own synagogue - the "Juden Tempel." [...]

This building was then used after the construction of the third synagogue in Krönchenhagen No. 13 only as a purification bath for the ritual ablutions. Since it had become in addition allegedly also dilapidated, the bath of the Jewish community 1839 was quit. At their request, however, they were allowed in the following year to continue using the well located there and previously used by them by means of an annex to the town poorhouse located in Armesünderstraße. The Jewish community also requested the magistrate on 10.06.1854 to also let them use the adjacent apartment of the poorhouse for 16 Rt annually. Even after the town treasury bought the poorhouse in 1851, the Jewish community continued to use the attached "Bude" as a bathhouse until 1893. - cf. a. StA, revenue of the treasury, - cf. a. StA, article in the Güstrower Anzeiger of the SVZ from 24.09.2004