This is currently the only preserved synagogue in the Olsztyn district.

The construction of the first synagogue in Memel was initiated and financed in 1835 by the lumbermen Mordechai Wasbutzki and Meir Lifschitz. It was a square building with an entrance on the side of Synagogenstr. In the spring of 1939, after the Memel area was rejoined to Germany, the destruction took place. The area has not been rebuilt until the present.
Note: Sometimes there is the designation Polish School or also prayer house (Because there was only one official synagogue was allowed to exist on site).

At the turn of the century, the innkeeper Leib Robinsky ran the inn named after him in Tattamischken, which was located directly on the Memel River. The river was an important trade route at that time and the inns sold many other useful things besides drinks and food. Robinsky was a member of the nearby Jewish community of Russ. He had numerous children who went from here to different places and countries. Today there is nothing left of the former village after many floods and disuse. Today at the place is a later built vacation resort.

In 1816 the stone synagogue was built. When in 1914 during World War I large parts of the city burned down, the synagogue building was also badly damaged. Pictures show that only the outer walls were preserved. In 1923 a reconstruction or a new building was planned, but this was not realized due to lack of money. The reconstruction carried out in 1930 retained the outer walls. The (no longer existing) mansard roof with curved gables was replaced by a hip roof 

A large fire  destroyed the entire city center in 1925, including the then wooden synagogue. The subsequently rebuilt synagogue was completed in 1928, with some rebuilding up to 1936.  At the end of June 1941, SS men from nearby Heydekrug locked up Jewish men from the town in the synagogue and later transported them away.

After the war from 1945, the building was used as a cultural center, and later as a warehouse and sports hall. After that, it stood empty for many years. Since 2007, the building has been renovated.

The house of learning was founded by Yisroel (Lipkin) Salanter. The new building was initiated by Rabbi Isaac Rülf, who collected numerous donations. The inauguration took place on September 25, 1875, with great public attention. The opening speech was given by the eminent Taimudist Leibush ben Jechiel Michael Weiser, called Malbim. The Teaching House also called Litvak synagogue was the center of the Jews coming from Lithuania.

The merchants Arthur and Siegfried Lewinsohn initially (1904) operated a shop for manufactures and fashion goods in Franzstra;e 3/4. Soon, the manufactures and fashion goods business became a shoe shop and shoe mail order house. From entries in Dessau address books from the time, it can be seen that the shop was located at Franzstra&szlig 3/4 in the years 1904-1907. In 1908, the shop moved to Zerbster Stra&szlig 22. From 1909, the shop was located at Askanische Stra&szlig 109, where it can be traced until 1919 with the last owner Siegfried Lewinsohn.

Rabbi Shmuel Sperber, born in 1905 in Brasov (Kronstadt) in Siebenbürgen in Rumänien. His father David Sperber was a rabbi in Brasov and Av Beit Din (chairman of a Beth Din rabbinical court. In his youth, Shmuel Sperber studied in the yeshivas of Oyber-Visheve under the wings of Rabbi Eliezer David Grünwald and Rabbi Mendel Hager. After his ordination (semichah) as a rabbi and his marriage, he lived in the Romanian city of Iasi, where on June 29, 1941, the Isai Death Train with 13,000 victims marked the conclusion of the largest pogrom against the Jewish population in Romania.

In 1913, the Robert Ball business is taken over by Hugo and Johanna Grünthal übern. Management Johanna Grünthal - authorized signatory Hugo Grünthal until 1914, then Julius Nathanson until 1935. Hugo Grünthal initiated an edition program of World War medals in Berlin, in which the medalist and sculptor Artur Imanuel Loewental was also involved.