House Wolfenstein - Synagogue Berlin Düppelstraße (district Steglitz)

The House-Wolfenstein, also called Synagogue-Steglitz, was built in 1897 by Moses Wolfenstein, a Jewish merchant and property owner of Düppelstraße 41 in Steglitz, from former stables. The "Religiöse Verein jüdischer Glaubensgenossen zu Steglitz" used the synagogue for its services in 1897. Before that, other locations such as the Schlosspark restaurant were used for services. When Moses Wolfenstein died on April 8, 1907, the psychiatrist James Fraenkel took over the presidency of the congregation. In the Reichsprogromnacht the interior of the synagogue was devastated, the building itself remained almost undamaged. After World War II the building was used for storage. At the end of the 1980s, the synagogue was to make way for a planned shopping arcade, but the initiative "Haus Wolfenstein" achieved in 1989 that the synagogue was listed and renovated. Since 2003, the former synagogue has housed a law office. Today, only the mirror wall on Hermann-Ehlers-Platz and a stone plaque remind us of the Jewish roots of this place. The mirror wall was inaugurated in 1995 by Auschwitz survivor Alfred Silberstein, it commemorates the deportiterten and murdered Jews at the time of National Socialism.