Synagogue

A synagogue was built in 1782. The Jewish community was able to acquire the property Hauptstraße No. 17 from Löw Jacob in that year. In the house standing on this property the first-mentioned Jew Haimb had already lived in 1685. The synagogue was the center of Jewish life in Weisendorf for about 120 years. The synagogue building also housed the schoolroom and the ritual bath. The prayer room had a wooden barrel vault. 
  

In the Middle Ages and the centuries up to the middle of the 19th century, there is no mention of a prayer hall or synagogue at any time.  
     

Last use: residential

Last use: residential

A first prayer hall was established in the year of the establishment of the congregation and was inaugurated on the eve of New Year's Day (Erev Rosh Hashanah) 5636 (= September 29, 1875). Already this first prayer hall was "well furnished" according to the above report of April 1876. 

Last use: apartments, rooms of the city youth care and the city youth ring

Last use: social housing

No information is available about the history of the prayer rooms and synagogues from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. A new synagogue was built in 1882/83 by the Fürth master builder Evora. The building with its two double towers quickly became one of Gunzenhausen's landmarks. The dedication of the synagogue was on October 19, 1883 by District Rabbi Aron Bär Grünbaum from Ansbach.

Last use: public place

A synagogue or a prayer room was present at least since the time around 1700. Initially, such a prayer room was established in a house belonging to Barthel Hunefeldt. Then a prayer room could be established in the small castle (Eisenach life). Shortly before 1716 a new synagogue was built. From this year a document is preserved, in which is reported about closer circumstances to the building of the house of worship: The lords of Rosenbach would have given the timber for the construction. The building itself, however, was built on princely Saxony-Eisenach land.