Gerbergasse Synagogue (Hildburghausen)

In 1933, Bankhaus Strupp was nationalized and the Old Synagogue adjacent to the bank building was forcibly demolished.  
The Jewish factory owner Gassenheimer then offered the garden house belonging to him for conversion as a synagogue. Still in 1933 the building could be inaugurated as a synagogue. During the November pogrom in 1938, the synagogue was cleared out on the morning of November 10. The objects of worship as well as other furnishings were burned. The building remained as a garden house to the building Gerbergasse 17 and was used as a storage room since then. During the time of the Second World War there was a forced labor camp on the property.  On January 19, 1990, the building was placed under monument protection, when it was already in a highly neglected state. Despite the pronounced monument protection, the building was demolished in 2005. The property was surrounded with a new fence and is used as a garden. A memorial stone for the former synagogue was erected.