Leopoldring 2c
76437 Rastatt
Germany
The so-called "new" synagogue was designed by the Karlsruhe architect: Baurat Ludwig Levy and was in the neo-baroque style. Its interior was kept in white and the Torah shrine was made of white sandstone. The room was decorated with gilded laurel tendrils. On an archway was the Hebrew inscription "For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples", which had already been placed in the "old" synagogue.
In the Reichsprogromnacht of 1938, the synagogue was destroyed, but the Kantorenhaus remained intact. Today, the renovated Kantorenhaus is a meeting place for the West district. To remember the original function of the house is a museum documentation room as a branch of the City Museum Rastatt, which focuses on the Jewish life in the city of Rastatt around 1900.
.On the site of the synagogue, there has been an apartment building since the 1960-ies.
In the house lived from 1923 to 1933 the cantor Hermann Translateur with his wife Ricke née Heimann. He was the target of defamation in the "Festungsbote", a Nazi postilla.
Probably because of the constant hostility, he moved to Mannheim in April 1933.
In 1937 he emigrated to New York and later to Jerusalem, where he died in 1943. A Stolperstein was set here in his memory.Four more Stolpersteine were placed at this site in memory of Translateur's successor Siegfried Simon and his family. Simon lived in the Kantorenhaus with his wife Johanna née Levi and sons Wolfgang and Berthold until 1939.
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