LVR CULTURAL HOUSE Country Synagogue Rödingen

In the village Rödingen (municipality Titz, district Düren) lived already in the Middle Ages isolated Jewish women and men. In the 19th century a small community arose here. The long-standing community leader Isaak Ullmann had a synagogue built on his property in 1841 for the Jewish families in Rödingen and the surrounding villages.

The Rödingen synagogue is the only Jewish house of worship in the western Rhineland that has been preserved largely in its original condition. The descendants of the Ullmann family, having run into financial difficulties as a result of Nazi persecution measures, had to sell the property with the buildings in 1934. The new Christian owner was a showman. From then on, he used the former synagogue as a workshop. Because of the "Aryan" owner, it escaped destruction during the November pogrom of 1938.

The Landschaftsverband Rheinland was able to acquire the very dilapidated buildings in 1999. After renovation, the building ensemble was opened in 2009 as the LVR-KULTURHAUS Landsynagoge Rödingen. Monthly lectures, concerts, readings, film screenings and workshops are held in the former synagogue. In the former home of the Ullmann family, a permanent exhibition invites visitors to learn about various aspects of Jewish life in the Rhineland.