Ignatz Bubis - Community Center (Frankfurt am Main)

The Ignatz Bubis Community Center at Savignystraße 66 is inaugurated in September 1986. The building houses part of the I. E. Lichtigfeld School, a kindergarten, a youth center, a banquet hall and senior citizens' meeting place, and a kosher restaurant.  

Responsible for the house are the architect Salomon Korn and the architectural partnership Gerhard Balser, who have designed a structure with acute-angled triangles, which a glazed over tract arrow-shaped breaks through. This symbolic incision finds its counterpart in the tower-like stylized Mosaic tablet of law, a reference to the rupture of civilization in German-Jewish history. Further Jewish symbols are found in the form of three seven-armed candlesticks, menorot, in front of the glass front of the foyer between the columns. In another part of the building is the municipal administration as well as the social department.

Since 1999, the community center has borne the name of Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the board of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt as well as president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, who initiated the new building. For him, the construction of the building was a visible sign that the new Jewish generation in Frankfurt once again has a permanent home and is building its future in this city. The leitmotif of the new building was the sentence: "Whoever builds a house wants to stay".