Untergasse 15
35418 Beuern
Germany
In the beginning there was probably a prayer room in one of the Jewish houses. In 1739, the Jewish community of Beuern applied to the district government of Giessen for the construction of a synagogue. It is not known whether this application was approved or when it came to the construction of the synagogue.
Around 1846, the synagogue was built, added to or rebuilt. In 1854 (according to Altaras: 1846) the synagogue burned down. A new synagogue was built around 1855 from the foundation walls of the previous building of the burned synagogue. It was a high, one-story, half-timbered building with a gable roof facing east-west on a stone base. It was a stately building for the village with large windows (two high, large trapezoidal arch windows).
In the November pogrom 1938, the synagogue was destroyed inside. The building itself was preserved.
Between 1938 and 1940, the synagogue building came into the possession of a land neighbor and was then used by him as a barn. Towards the end of the war (1945), Torah scrolls are said to have been still present, which - before the Americans arrived - were thrown onto the street and torn up by young people from Beuern, and parts of them were used by children as painting paper. The synagogue building remained structurally unchanged until the beginning of the 1980s, except for a partial bricking up of the windows and the renovation of the interior. At the beginning of the 1980s, a mezzanine floor was built by the current owner.
With a grant from the Advisory Council on Monuments of the district of Gießen for the roof renovation of the former synagogue was carried out in September 2003 by Susanne Gerschlauer "Bauhistorische Kurzuntersuchung", über die bei der Literatur genannten Publikation berichtet. At the time of her inventory, the former synagogue was used as a barn or as a storage room for firewood.
