Tönsbergstraße 4
33813 Oerlinghausen
Germany
The synagogue of 1894 is most likely the third on this site. The first building, a wooden structure, dates from about 1802/03. Before that, the Jewish people of Oerlinghausen held their services in rented rooms. The land was provided by the widow Meyer David. The first synagogue was already dilapidated three decades later. A list of costs for a new building is preserved in the state archives in Detmold. There is no evidence of its realization, but it probably took place around 1832/33. This second synagogue also showed traces of forgetfulness around 1890. Expertises of 1892 speak of cracks in the Gemäuer and finally a strong impairment of the statics.
1893 approved the Fürst of the Israeltischen Kultusgemeinde the Durchführung of a collection among Glaubensgenossen for a new building. This was implemented in 1894, by which time the congregation had already shrunk considerably. Younger people moved to the big cities for education. Already during the First World War services were cancelled, in the 1920s this was more often the case. Nevertheless, the synagogue community, which also included the Jews from Leopoldshöhe and Kachtenhausen, continued to exist. The community was dissolved in the spring of 1938 after the departure and emigration of further members, the remaining souls assigned to the synagogue community Detmold.
In July 1938, the building was sold for 1,300 RM to the stateless shoemaker Sikka. The fact that it was no longer in Jüdische possession was the reason why it escaped an intended setting on fire on the evening of November 10, 1938. However, Sikka had to move the slate tower with Star of David.
"At the end of the 70s Oerlinghausener repaired the empty building "ude; (Brocke, Schwarz, 1999) Last use: exhibition space of the "Kunstverein in the synagogue"
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