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On the memorial plaque it says that the synagogue existed until 1939. Last use: square, green space

At the latest in the second half of the 18th century Jewish services were held in the city. In 1784 a synagogue is mentioned, whereby it was probably a prayer room in one of the Jewish houses. When in 1803 the Jews of Vechta had to pay homage to the new sovereign (Duke of Oldenburg), a Torah scroll was taken from the synagogue for this purpose. 
  
In 1825/26 a synagogue was built on the site of the demolished community servant's house at Klingenhagen (today Juttastrasse 4). It was a one-story building with a crippled hipped roof. 
 

The synagogue of the Jewish community in Osnabrück was built and consecrated in 1906. The house of worship is designed by the Cologne architect Sigmund Münchhausen in the Romanesque style. The number of congregation members in 1933 was 435.  On the morning of November 10, 1938, the synagogue in Rolandstraße was set on fire. On the same day, all Jewish men up to 55 years of age were locked in the cellar and then deported to the concentration camp. The ruins of the synagogue were completely demolished a year later.

The synagogue in Unteren Masch Street was built between the years 1896-1872, after the synagogue in Prinzen Street was in poor condition and the number of members of the Jewish community had increased sharply. The building has 200 seats. In 1895 the synagogue was consecrated after it was expanded to 450 seats due to influx of Jews from Göttingen.

On the prayer rooms/synagogues from the 16th to the second half of the 17th century there is hardly any information available. A first larger synagogue was built on the Dürrenberg between 1693 and 1698. After the middle of the 18th century, it became increasingly dilapidated and was too small for the growing number of congregation members.

Until 1838 the synagogue was located in the upper part of the house No. 31 (today Nürnberger Straße 16, rear building). This house belonged to Löb Jakob until around 1840. Since 1735 the Jewish community had held its services in this house. In the lower part of the house there was a ritual bath. In the 1820s, the previous synagogue was in a "too ruinous and dilapidated" condition.
   

A synagogue (judenschul) already existed in the Middle Ages. It is first mentioned in a document in 1393 and was located in the Judengasse near the Judentor. A more exact localization is not possible. In 1433 a precentor is mentioned. A richly illuminated Hebrew manuscript (Torah), written in 1390-1395 by the scribe Simcha ben Samuel Halewi for Jacob Meir ben Owadia in Coburg, testifies to a rich intellectual life of the Coburg Jews. After the expulsion of the Jews from Coburg, the synagogue was transformed into a Christian St.

On Sabbath Para 5520 = March 15, 1760 the synagogue in Bayreuth was consecrated. Already earlier Jews had lived in Bayreuth. Around the middle of the 13th century they had settled here and in 1515 they were forced to emigrate. Remains of the old Jewish settlement no longer exist, only one street is popularly called 'Judengasse', perhaps in memory of past times. Individual Jewesses*Jews were later allowed to move in especially if their services were needed.  

In 1705 a first synagogue was built not far from the "Judenhof" of the Erthaler Schutzjuden (property Bachstraße 2). In 1851/52 a new building was erected on the site of this first synagogue, which, however, was soon too small due to the rapidly growing number of Jewish community members. In the 1880s, efforts were made to acquire a suitable plot of land.
   

The medieval Jewish residential area was located in the city center near the market district in the area of Große Metzgergasse (today Dalbergstraße)/Stiftsplatz. A synagogue was first mentioned in 1344. It stood in the Dalbergstraße/Rathausgasse corner before and after the persecution in the plague period. It is mentioned as "Judenschule" (1363, 1383, 1385, 1397, 1437) or as "synagoga Judeorum" (1402). Until the middle of the 15th century it was used for the services of the Jewish community. For unknown reasons, it fell into disrepair and was completely destroyed in 1459.