Synagogue Alte-Synagogen-Straße (Osnabrück)

The synagogue of the Jewish community in Osnabrück was built and consecrated in 1906. The house of worship is designed by the Cologne architect Sigmund Münchhausen in the Romanesque style. The number of congregation members in 1933 was 435.  On the morning of November 10, 1938, the synagogue in Rolandstraße was set on fire. On the same day, all Jewish men up to 55 years of age were locked in the cellar and then deported to the concentration camp. The ruins of the synagogue were completely demolished a year later.
Shortly after the end of World War II, survivors of the community established a prayer room in a classroom in the former Jewish school on Rolandstraße, which stood next to the former synagogue. The Jewish community of Osnabrück numbered 45 people in 1945 and grew to 1500 in the 1970s due to the immigration of Jewish immigrants from the territories of the  former USSR.
Roland Street, where the former synagogue stood, was renamed "Old Synagogue Street". At the site of the synagogue, three bronze memorial plaques were erected in memory of the members of the Jewish community of Osnabrück, one of which bears the inscription: "In memory of the senseless destruction on November 9, 1938 of the house of worship of the Jewish community of Osnabrück, which until then stood in this street." In November 2004, another memorial was inaugurated, with the cooperation of schools and businesses.