Augustenstraße Synagogue (Rostock)

Already in the Middle Ages Jews settled in Rostock. For lack of sources can not be said whether it already at that time the community had a synagogue.
. Only in 1868 there is information about religious services of the resident families in Rostock, which took place in private rooms. The financial resources from the inheritance of a product merchant named Meyer Gimpel to the Jewish community of Rostock made possible the construction of a new synagogue in 1897. The Jewish community was able to use the endowment to purchase the property at Augustenstraße 101 in 1899. With 350 seats, the synagogue was the largest synagogue in Mecklenburg at that time. Through donations of rituals and magnificent cult objects, the synagogue was particularly impressive. 
The synagogue in Augustenstraße was solemnly consecrated in 1902 under the leadership of the state rabbi Dr. Fabien Feilchenfeld and with the participation of the mayor. Like many other synagogues in Germany, the November pogrom in 1938 affected the Rostock synagogue. The synagogue was set on fire on the morning of November 10, its interior furnishings and ritual objects were destroyed, only the outer walls remained standing. The community sold the property including the ruins a year later. During the air raids in 1944 the ruins of the synagogue were destroyed. After the war, in 1948, the synagogue property was sold and built on. A memorial stele at the site of the synagogue was erected on November 9, 1988 in memory of the destroyed Rostock synagogue.  
The new synagogue is located in the Jewish community center at Augustenstraße 20, not far from the former site of the old synagogue. The inauguration of the synagogue took place in 2004.