Jewish Welfare Center and Synagogue Ottostraße (Cologne)

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The Jewish Welfare Center was founded in 1867 as an Israelite asylum for the sick and infirm. In the 1890s it was decided to build a new building on Ottostra&szlig. The inauguration took place on 19.2.1908. At the instigation of the medical director, Dr. Auerbach, the facility met the most modern requirements. During WW1, the asylum provided up to 200 hospital beds. The asylum managed to survive the crises of the Weimar period. The necessary modernizations due to the enormous burden of the war years could only be financed gradually.