Synagogue Untergasse (Spangenberg)

At first there was probably a prayer room in one of the Jewish houses. A first synagogue was built around 1806. At the beginning of the 1830s there were first considerations in view of a new synagogue building and a larger schoolhouse. In May 1833, master builder Augener submitted cost estimates and building plans for this, but these were not implemented. Rather, the Jewish community seems to have first bought the home of the master carpenter Justus Appel for 255 RTh to provide the teacher until a clarification of the building projects a larger apartment.   

In 1839, initial plans were available for a new synagogue and school building, which in turn had been prepared by the country architect. Alternatively, plans were discussed with renovation and expansion proposals for the existing synagogue and the existing residential building. By the end of 1846, the synagogue and school building was completed. It was a two-story half-timbered building with a gable roof and characteristic dwarf gable in the central axis. The main entrance was accessible from the Untergasse, the side entrance from the courtyard.

In August 1855, the first repair was due.

For almost 100 years the synagogue/school house was the center of Jewish community life in Spangenberg.

In the November 1938 pogrom, the synagogue building was not externally destroyed. The ritual objects had been taken to Kassel earlier, where they were destroyed in November 1938. The building was later converted into a residential building and is preserved as such.