Rochusstraße 10
55411 Bingen am Rhein
Germany
Because a reconstruction of the existing synagogue would not have been cheaper, it was decided to build a new one. For 40,000 marks, the Jewish community acquired the vineyard of the Jew Feist between towering residential buildings in Rochusstraße as a building plot. The architectural competition for the new building was won by the renowned Jewish professor Ludwig Levy from Karlsruhe, who had also been involved in the design of the Reichstag building, with his project oriented towards the Romanesque church building style; in the meantime, the Oriental-Neo-Moorish splendor style had been abandoned. Around the turn of the century, one turned to "German architectural styles" in order to publicly demonstrate the affiliation of the Jews to the German people.
The entire synagogue complex consisted of the synagogal central building, which projected far to the west between the residential houses, and two outbuildings on the street front. The right building, still standing today, with three beautifully decorated round-arched windows on the middle floor, served as a community center with administrative and meeting rooms. In the left, narrower building were rooms for the rabbi and the cantor, while in the basement was the apartment of the synagogue servant. The main room showed a two-story layout, the ground floor of which was for the men and the gallery floor for the women. This room was covered with an open wooden vault, which, like the wall and vault surfaces, was decorated with picturesque ornaments. The windows were decorated with stained glass. (https://www.juedisches-bingen.de/230.0.html)
Also in Bingen, the synagogue was destroyed in 1938 and remained partly in ruins until 1970. In the preserved part there is a memorial and meeting center, which is used by the "Arbeitskreis jüdisches Bingen" and the association "TIFTUF-Förderverein für jüdisches Leben in Bingen heute" . (https://www.juedisches-bingen.de/158.0.html)
The remaining area is used by the volunteer fire department of Bingen.
