Synagogue (Gera)

Already in the Middle Ages there was a synagogue ("Judenschule") (named in 1502). 
In the second half of the 19th century, a synagogue (temple) was established (after 1885) in Leipziger Strasse  
. After the end of the First World War, services were held in a back building (upper floor of a side wing) of the then hotel "Kronprinz" on Rossplatz (later "Square of the Republic"). In addition, there were prayer rooms of various Orthodox movements, a larger one (Orthodox synagogue) until 1938 in Hospitalstraße.
During the November pogrom in 1938, the synagogues in the hotel "Kronprinz" and in Hospitalstraße were desecrated by Nazi supporters, the furnishings and objects of worship were burned. During the Second World War, the building of the Hotel Kronprinz (with the prayer hall in the back building) was destroyed. 
In November 1989, a monument to the destroyed synagogue was inaugurated. The monument consists of four lines: a broken synagogue entrance with the inscription: "Synagoge zu Gera 9.11.1938" and three stone slabs lying in the ground in front of it. A smaller stone slab shows a menorah; one of the inscription slabs reads, "The pogrom night of November 9, 1938 brought destruction, endless suffering and death to our Jewish fellow citizens"; the other reads, "Six million Jews were victims of German fascism from 1933 to 1945."