Synagogue

Due to the increased number of members of the Jewish community in Braunschweig, which meant that the synagogue room in the community center used until then was no longer sufficient, it was decided to build a new synagogue in the inner courtyard of the community center in Steinstraße, directly adjacent to it and to the bunker. In January 2006, Jürgen Justus Becker conceived and realized the campaign „1938 Bausteine für die Synagoge“ on a voluntary basis, whereby the number  1938 is intended to commemorate the November pogroms of 1938 and their consequences.

Synagogue Lengerich

BUILT 1820/21
CERSTÖRT 10.11.1938

The Old Synagogue is the oldest preserved monument of Jewish religious architecture in Poland. It was built in the 15th century as a two-nave hall with cross-ribbed vaults, supported on two pillars, and with a gable roof, which in its type of construction resembled the synagogues in Worms, Regensburg and Prague. In 1570 it was remodeled by the Florentine master builder Matteo Gucci. Its walls were crowned with an attic, which was used in this form for the first time in synagogue architecture in Poland.

The synagogue was built in 1907 by the Jewish community Bodenbach in Art Nouveau style with Moorish elements. Previously, services were held in premises provided by private individuals.

By the Münchner Abkommen of September 29, 1938, the Sudeten German territories were seceded from Czechoslovakia and incorporated into the German Reich. After this event and due to the pogrom night organized by the National Socialist regime on November 8-9, 1938, the Jüdische community in Děčín - Podmokly ceased to exist.

Zamość is a special city in its history and culture. Its founder - Jan Zamoyski, Great Ottoman of the Polish Crown – wanted the city to become perfect both in its arrangement and social composition. In order to promote the economic development of the city, he recruited merchants and specialized craftsmen – Armenians, Greeks and Jews –. The testimony of this great multicultural past of the city is the Renaissance synagogue, which is preserved to this day. Immediately after its construction, Jews settled in the city.