Synagogue Krefeld Wiedstraße

Since 1978, the Jewish community had rented premises on the second floor of the house Wiedstraße 17 for conversion into a prayer hall. This prayer room could be occupied in 1981. By the growing number of members of the congregation the place was hardly sufficient already in the 1990s.

On initiative of the mayor at that time Dieter Pützhofen and the Jewish community the association foundation Dr. Isidor Hirschfelder had been created 1998. This association had and has, among other things, the task of establishing a Jewish community center in Krefeld, to promote Jewish culture in the Lower Rhine and to promote Jewish history in the Lower Rhine.

After it had already been decided at the beginning of the 1990s to build a Jewish community center in Wiedstraße, the council of the city of Krefeld transferred the property to the association Stiftung Dr. Isidor Hirschfelder for the construction of a Jewish community center in June 2003. The property with building was to be transferred to the Jewish community after completion.

On April 28, 2004, the cornerstone for the new synagogue was laid. On October 7 of the same year the topping-out ceremony could be celebrated and in November the construction of the main building, the community hall and the foyer was already started. Since October 2005, the rooms on the second floor have been available to the Jewish community. The shell of the building was completed in 2006/2007. After that, the architects Klaus and Piet Reymann took over the archetectonic tasks from March. In 2008 the synagogue, the main building and the community hall with foyer were completed. On September 14, 2008, the solemn inauguration of the synagogue and the community center took place.