Synagogue

The Karolinenthal Synagogue is a former Jewish house of prayer in Prague 8 - Karlín. The synagogue was built in 1861 in the neo-Romanesque style].

The Karolinenthal Synagogue was intended for the wealthy local Jewish community. Until the end of 1921, Karlín (Karolinenthal) was an independent town with a predominantly industrial production focus. Many of the town's wealthy factory owners and merchants were Jewish. The synagogue underwent several structural alterations. The last functionalist alterations to the interior were carried out between 1928 and 1930.

The Pinkas Synagogue dates back to the 16th century. It is the second oldest synagogue in Prague's Jewish quarter. In 1959, it was converted into a memorial to the Jewish victims from B¨hmen and M¨hren.

Children's drawings from the Theresienstadt concentration camp are exhibited on the second floor.

The synagogue in Herxheim near Landau/Pfalz, a local community in the district of Südliche Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate, was built in 1841/42. The synagogue stood at Obere Hauptstra e 18.

In 1875, the community acquired Baron von Eichthal's riding school at König-Karl-Straße (then Königsstraße) 49 and had it converted into a synagogue according to plans by the Cannstatt architect Christian Weisslig. Although not a magnificent building like the Stuttgart synagogue of 1861, the project was a sign of identification and commitment for the congregation of just over 250 members at the time.

The community remained independent after the unification of Cannstatt and Stuttgart in 1905; it reached its peak shortly before the turn of the century with almost 500 people.

On September 5, 1907, the synagogue of the German-assimilated Orthodox Jewish community in Poznan, built by the Berlin architects Cremer & Wolffenstein in Moorish-Oriental style, was inaugurated. It offered space for 600 seated and 100 standing places for men and - on two side galleries - space for 600 women. At the time, 5,324 Jews lived in the city of Poznan, which corresponded to around 3.8% of the city's population. The building, which was built by the Jewish community for around 850,000 Reichsmark, was unusually imposing.

The Old Synagogue in Potsdam was built between 1900 and 1903 according to plans by Otto Kerwien and was consecrated on June 17, 1903. It was destroyed during the Second World War and demolished in the 1950s.

The construction of the new synagogue in Potsdam is a controversial topic. It is about erecting a religious building in a historical and political metropolis. The challenges of reviving Jewish life in Germany become clear through these discussions, and in 2012 the plan was concretized and the state government made a plot of land in the city center available. Several architectural competitions were held. The synagogue was to have not only a religious, but also a cultural center. However, the first designs met with resistance.