Synagogue Synagogue Street (Obermoschel)

First there was a prayer room available. The prayer room mentioned in 1852 in a status report on Jewish worship in the area of the Kirchheim district commissariat had been established "for 62 years already" in the house of Jacob Landsberg (that is since 1790). In 1814 the Jewish community purchased this house for 900 guilders. Over the years the condition of the prayer hall became worse and worse. In 1841 it was said that the building was "demolished", that is, in dilapidated condition. A little later it was demolished. 
 
In 1844 a new synagogue building was constructed in place of the demolished building with the old prayer hall. The school hall and teacher's apartment were established on the first floor. The prayer hall on the upper floor had 35 seats for men and 20 seats for women on a gallery. The facade of the building was structured by pilaster strips and round-arched windows. 
  
For over 90 years, the synagogue building was the center of Jewish community life in Obermoschel. In 1911, extensive renovation work was undertaken.
      
In the November pogrom of 1938 the synagogue was broken into by SA men and other Nazis in the early morning of November 10. The interior, the furnishings and the five valuable stained glass windows were destroyed. The ritual objects as well as the demolished furnishings were dragged to the market square and burned there. The building itself was spared from arson. During World War II, French prisoners of war and Eastern workers were housed in the building.   
  
In 1952 the building came in the course of restitution to the Jewish Religious Community of the Rhine Palatinate. The prayer hall was subsequently used as a storeroom, the windows were reduced in size and partly bricked up. In 1972 the building was sold to private individuals and 1972/73 converted into a residential house (the notice board states 1975 as the year of sale). The exterior (and interior) of the former synagogue was made unrecognizable, respectively destroyed.  
  
In 2006 the former portal inscription was integrated into a monument near the Protestant church (see report below). At the former synagogue building is a memorial plaque with the text: "Here stood the synagogue of the Jewish community of Obermoschel, built in 1841. On November 9, 1938, it was desecrated in the course of the Reichspogromnacht and no longer used as a house of prayer, sold in 1975 and converted into a residential building."