Former community synagogue Halberstadt Bakenstraße (1712-1938/39) with memorial "DenkOrt" (2008)

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On the basis of a donation by the Halberstadt court factor Berend Lehmann (1661-1730), the magnificently furnished Baroque synagogue of the Halberstadt community was inaugurated in 1712, in the backyard area of Judenstraße 24-27 (on the site of two previous buildings). In contrast to the first public synagogue in the Prussian royal city of Berlin (1714), the Halberstadt house of worship visibly towered over the surrounding buildings from afar. As the first synagogue in Germany, it followed the architecture of its time.