Synagogue Werther (Westphalia)

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In September 1840, the newly built synagogue was inaugurated for the congregation, which in the meantime had grown to 111 members. It was located in the rear area of the property Ravensberger Strasse 25. At this place there was already decades earlier a smaller predecessor building. Behind the synagogue was the shul house for ritual shul according to the Jewish dietary laws. The synagogue was severely damaged during the Reich Pogrom Night on November 10, 1938, plundered and thus rendered unusable.

Synagogue An der Burg (Warburg)

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Warburg was the seat of the Oberlandesrabbinate of Westphalia since 1686 at the latest. A prayer room in a house at the Altstädter Markt was first mentioned around 1650. After the prince bishop of Paderborn had given his approval at the end of the 17th century, a synagogue was established in the somewhat remote, narrow and steep Altstadtgasse "An der Burg", the Jewish schoolhouse was attached to the building.