Synagogue

The former synagogue was extensively renovated for two years and converted into a cultural center. Thanks to a joint effort by the National Fund, the province of Lower Austria and the city of St. Pölten, 4.6 million euros were invested in the renovation and extension work. The building was constructed in 1913 by the Jewish religious community, with the majority of the construction costs being financed by private donations. The synagogue was badly damaged during the November protests in 1938. In the 1980s, the St.

In 1895, the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde Bilin acquired a residential building and converted it into a synagogue. On the second floor, a prayer hall was established, where services were held until 1938. The interior rooms and the interior of the synagogue were destroyed as a result of the Nazi occupation and the anti-Jewish campaign in November 1938. The synagogue building has been structurally preserved and, after several reconstructions, has since served as a residential building. The profaned synagogue is located at ul. Teplická 116/24.

1794 / 1848 - Synagogue, rabbi's house and Jewish school in Úštěk

The stone synagogue was built as a successor to the wooden synagogue, which was the victim of a fire in 1793, in the form of a square tower and in the style of classicism.

Modified several times over time.

The rabbi's apartment and the Jewish school were located on the lower floors of the synagogue.

The building is located at ul. Pawła Włodkowica 7 – 9. It was built in the years 1827 to 1829 according to the plans of K. F. Langhans, a German architect of the Classicist period, as the first large Jewish house of prayer in Silesia. The building was erected at a time of progressive emancipation of the Jewish population in Prussia. The synagogue was rebuilt several times.

This place has some peculiarities for East Prussia and for the Jews*in East Prussia: There was a very high Jewish percentage of the total population here. It is the first place in East Prussia where a Jew, Pincas Isakowitz, received the right to build a house with an inn in 1708. The synagogue was built on the main street even before churches were built in the village.
Schmalleningken, in Lithuanian Smalininkai, was located on the very old southeastern border of East Prussia with Lithuania and from 1795 the Russian Empire. 

According to Gramenz/Ulmer - September 2015

History of the synagogue

The large choral synagogue was built in what was then Yelizavetgrad in 1853. During the pogrom in April 1881 it became one of the sites of anti-Jewish riots. Shortly after the violence broke out, a crowd gathered in front of the synagogue. According to rumors that spread quickly through the city, shots were fired from there. This is how the correspondent of the newspaper Rassvet described the events at the synagogue.

"From the synagogue, it is said, some shots were fired, and this broke the camel's back. The crowd rushed at the synagogue with all its might and took it by storm."