Synagogue Gillergasse (Haßloch)

At the beginning of the 19th century there was synagogue of unknown year of construction present. It was located on the upper floor in the back of a private house built entirely of wood (by Jakob Lützel). On the first floor below the synagogue was a cowshed.   
 
In 1835 urgent repairs had to be carried out on the synagogue building, which, however, could not save the building in the long run. In 1843 the Royal District Commissariat in Neustadt threatened for the first time to close the synagogue due to dilapidation, and in October 1846 further use was forbidden, as the beams were rotten, the roof purlins and end beams broken through and only held together in a makeshift manner with iron clamps. The Bezirksbauschaffne Jung had with date of 16 July 1846 an expert opinion "The dilapidation of the synagogue to Hassloch concerning", the Royal Landkommissariat thereupon a use until at most the Feast of Tabernacles approved. 
  
In December 1846 the Kultusgemeinde bought a house in Gillergasse (Brauch'sches Haus in "Gillergaß No. 946"), which was in need of repair, but was quite suitable for the installation of a school and a prayer hall. The community had to pay 900 gulden for the purchase of the house. Even before the building was repaired, a new mikvah was built in its courtyard. In order to build the mikvah and to rebuild the purchased house, a loan of 1,100 florins had to be taken out, which the community members had to deal with repaying for years. The former Brauch house was rebuilt: on the first floor the school hall, the teacher's apartment and a "rented apartment" were established, and on the upper floor the prayer hall. Possibly still in December 1846 the new synagogue could be referred, since the municipality celebrated the 75-year synagogue anniversary in December 1911.

Around 1865 the synagogue board planned to expand the synagogue to provide a kind of women's synagogue with its own entrance. However, there was considerable opposition to these plans in the community, mainly due to the lack of funding. 
  
At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of a new synagogue was planned. Initially, funds were collected for the purchase of a plot of land. The community member Theodor Levi tried to raise funds for the good cause through a special cigar sale.

It remained with the plans for a new synagogue building, which were probably fully shattered by the First World War and the inflation period. The old synagogue remained the center of Jewish community life in the village until 1938.    
  
During the November pogrom of 1938 the synagogue was desecrated and severely damaged. The building was also to be burned down, but twice the attempt at arson failed: in the first attempt the celebration went out by itself after a short time, in the second attempt a neighbor extinguished the fire because he was afraid for his barn standing in the neighborhood. However, the interior was completely destroyed. 
 
The synagogue building was sold in March 1939 to a dance teacher. Around 1950 the with the adjacent school building came by reassignment back into the possession of the Jewish Religious Community of the Rhine Palatinate. 
  
In 1950 a trial took place before the jury court of Frankenthal against those involved in the November pogrom of 1938. In the process, the accused persons were sentenced to minor prison terms.
  
The former synagogue building had to be demolished in 1978 because it had been badly damaged during the demolition of a neighboring house. The property was sold in 1979 to private individuals. 1984 was at the former Jewish schoolhouse Gedenktafelangebracht with the inscription: "Here was until the desecration by the Nazis in the night of 9/10 November 1938, the synagogue of the Jewish community of Hassloch. With its destruction and the subsequent deportation of our Jewish fellow citizens, all Jewish life in our town came to an end. This plaque shall be a reminder for the living and a reminder for the coming generation."