Synagogue

The Conservative synagogue on Rykestraße is the only remaining Jewish place of worship in the eastern part of the city. It was finally inaugurated in 1904 after a ten-month construction period and served as a meeting place and place of prayer primarily for Jews who had moved to Eastern Europe. Attached to it were several Jewish school institutions. The synagogue, located in the backyard, continued to function as such until 1940, when it was misused by the National Socialists as a storage facility, among other things.

A hundred years ago, it was founded as a synagogue for the liberal stream of Judaism, whose adherents increasingly settled in the West End at the beginning of the 20th century.

Today, the large main room serves as an Orthodox synagogue, while at the same time all directions within the Jewish community find their home in the building. Neither the Pogrom Night nor the 2nd World War could destroy the Westend Synagogue completely, thus the reconstruction can take place already 1948 - 1950 by the architects Max Kemper, Werner Hebebrand in cooperation with Hans Leistikow.

In 1771 a first synagogue was built next to the cemetery (Judenberg 24). This first synagogue was demolished after 1822. According to an old tradition, a small elevation in the present southwest corner of the cemetery indicates the location of the Torah shrine of the old synagogue. 

In 1843, the Jewish community, under its then head Max Pfälzer, bought what is now the property at Mittelgasse 16 in the center of Hemsbach.

In 1845, master builder Valentin Fuchs drew up plans for a synagogue with a school, a teacher's apartment and a bathhouse.

The plans were implemented with the construction of the Jewish community center in 1847/48. On the south side of the synagogue courtyard, a bathhouse with a ritual bath was created.

In the Middle Ages, we learn of a synagogue in the Old Town (first mentioned in 1314 and last in 1427) and a synagogue in the Ilzstadt on the banks of the Ilz (until its destruction in 1478) on the site of St. Salvator's Church.
 
In the 19th/20th century (until the Nazi era) there was probably no prayer room. Possibly, community members met at times to hold services in one of the Jewish houses. Otherwise, services were attended in Straubing.  
   

In the first half of the 19th century, the synagogue had become too small for the steadily growing congregation, despite the extensions made. So in the 1840s it was decided to build a new building in place of the previous synagogue in F 2,13. In 1851 the old synagogue was demolished. In July 1851, work began on the new building. Numerous Mannheim and foreign companies were busy with the work, especially the artistic design.

In 1901 - 1906 the building of the Choral Synagogue was built in Minsk.

The initiator of the construction was the famous physician I. Lunets. Until 1921 the Choral Synagogue was the most important in Minsk. It was built in the Moorish style and resembled the synagogue of Budapest. The building consisted of two parts: a large-scale portal at the entrance and a ritual hall. The entrance to the synagogue was in the form of an arch, above it there was a round window called Aaron's eye. The room was very picturesque and colorful.

In 1740 there were meanwhile eight Jewish families living in the village. Together with the four Jewish families living in Gabsheim, you managed to get permission from the local government to establish a "Judenschule". In this building, which became Jewish community center after the construction of the synagogue in 1836, there were probably a prayer room and the schoolroom for teaching the children (possibly the rooms were identical). 
  

A prayer room existed around 1743, when Jacob David had provided a room in his house for worship and prayer and at the same time donated a Torah.