Former synagogue Bruck (Erlangen)

Even before the Reformation, i.e. since the beginning of the 16th century, Jewish families are said to have been accepted in Bruck. In 1515, the Margravial Diet decided to expel the Jews, which allowed one or another family from Erlangen to settle in the neighboring community of Bruck. In 1431 Jews are mentioned in the village for the first time. In 1604 a Jewish dwelling house is mentioned. It is probably the same one mentioned in a report from 1842. According to it, the house No. 12 belonged to the Jewish community "since time immemorial". In this house, located close to the church, there was a first prayer room. In 1619 six Jewish families were counted in the village. Some of them probably lived in the house just mentioned, No. 12. With the building of the synagogue in 1707, the Jewish population in Erlangen grew steadily. It was not until the emigrations in the middle of the 19th century that the number of members of the Jewish community decreased so much that the synagogue was sold to the grain merchant Georg Lederer on May 10, 1876. The subsequent owner converted the building into a barn.

The synagogue has been a protected architectural monument since 1981.