Synagogue (Geisa)

A synagogue is verifiable in the first half of the 19th century, but there may already have been a prayer room in the 18th century. The synagogue was located on the Judenhaugk (today on the Schlossberg southwest of the arched gate leading to the Schlossplatz) and was destroyed by fire on June 23, 1858. At that time all the houses around the market place and in the adjacent streets burned down.
The solemn consecration of the new synagogue on September 5, 1862 was attended by the clergy of the other denominations and the authorities and chairmen of the city, the state rabbi, the master builder and representatives of the construction supervision. The house of worship was the center of Jewish community life until 1938. In the mid-1920s, the synagogue board was formed by Isaak Freudenthal, N. Grünbaum, Louis Moses, E. Brande, E. Heilbronn.
In the pogrom night on November 9/10, 1938, the synagogue was largely destroyed by örtliche SA  rt (it was probably not set on fire) 1940, the ruins were demolished. In 1951 the synagogue property came into the possession of the Thuringia Association of Jewish Communities. The latter sold it to the city. On the 50th anniversary of the pogrom night, a commemorative plaque was erected in place of the synagogue on November 9, 1988.