Zur Burgmühle 24
41199 Mönchengladbach
Germany
In Odenkirchen there was already a synagogue in 1817. It was located in the courtyard of today's Zur Burgmühle 24 and was owned by the Jewish community. In 1911 the synagogue was demolished and replaced by a larger new building on the same site. The new synagogue in Arabic-Moorish style was consecrated on September 1, 1911. The synagogue was accessible only through a passageway on the side of the building of the former Mühlenstraße 24. This building was also owned by the Jewish community and served, among other things, the janitor as a service apartment or for holding religious education classes.
In order to point people passing by to the Jewish religious site, both tablets of the law and a Star of David above them were placed in the cement plaster above this passageway.
Because of its location between residential buildings, the synagogue was not set on fire during the November pogroms. However, it was destroyed from the inside and made unusable, so that the Jewish community life in Odenkirchen came to an abrupt end.
The building was destroyed at a later time by an aerial bomb.
