Synagogue Tempelstraße (Bonn)

The Old Synagogue in Bonn was built in 1878/79 on the Judengasse (until 1886, later Tempelstraße), which had been laid out from 1715.
On November 10, 1938, the synagogue and the community hall were set on fire, and the following year they were destroyed and demolished.

The property  passed from the Jewish community to the ownership of the city of Bonn in June 1939. A day care center was built on the property, which was demolished after the end of World War II. The site was used as a parking lot.

In 1953, the Bonn Jewish community received the property back through the Jewish Trust Corporation and sold it back to the city after only two years in order to acquire land for the construction of a new synagogue. A hotel was built on the site of the old synagogue at the end of the 1980s.

On the 50th anniversary of the November pogrom, a memorial sign made from the remains of the foundations of the synagogue destroyed in 1938 was unveiled on the Rhine promenade. The memorial sign consists of a brick wall with a Star of David broken out.