Synagogue

At the latest in the second half of the 18th century Jewish services were held in the city. In 1784 a synagogue is mentioned, whereby it was probably a prayer room in one of the Jewish houses. When in 1803 the Jews of Vechta had to pay homage to the new sovereign (Duke of Oldenburg), a Torah scroll was taken from the synagogue for this purpose. 
  
In 1825/26 a synagogue was built on the site of the demolished community servant's house at Klingenhagen (today Juttastrasse 4). It was a one-story building with a crippled hipped roof. 
 

The synagogue of the Jewish community in Osnabrück was built and consecrated in 1906. The house of worship is designed by the Cologne architect Sigmund Münchhausen in the Romanesque style. The number of congregation members in 1933 was 435.  On the morning of November 10, 1938, the synagogue in Rolandstraße was set on fire. On the same day, all Jewish men up to 55 years of age were locked in the cellar and then deported to the concentration camp. The ruins of the synagogue were completely demolished a year later.

The construction of a new synagogue was decided on March 29, 1880 by the congregational meeting of the Jewish community Leer (see Hensmann 2005, p. 26). In 1883, after the building permit was finally granted on November 23, 1883, the construction was then started and lasted until about the beginning of 1885. On May 28, 1885 the synagogue was solemnly inaugurated by Oberlandrabbiner Dr. Buchholz with a ceremonial act, for which numerous guests of all denominations appeared, and was in use from that time on (cf. Hensmann 2005, p. 32.36)

The synagogue in Unteren Masch Street was built between the years 1896-1872, after the synagogue in Prinzen Street was in poor condition and the number of members of the Jewish community had increased sharply. The building has 200 seats. In 1895 the synagogue was consecrated after it was expanded to 450 seats due to influx of Jews from Göttingen.

Last use: garage

Last use: memorial and information center.

Renovated in 1981, first used as a store, later converted into memorial 

Last use: memorial

Contradictory statements in the literature on destruction during the Nazi period: spared (Altaras, 1988) and damaged in the pogrom night 1938 (Krause-Schmitt, v. Freyberg, Wehe, 1995) Last use: vacant

Last use: after 190 used as a cinema and theater house. In the 1990s the former synagogue was converted into a musical theater and partially reconstructed in the process. Meanwhile, the former synagogue operates as "Capitol Entertainment Center." 

Contradictory statements in the literature on the date of the beginning of use: 1877 (Puvogel, Stankowski, 1995) and 1878 (Arnsberg, 1971) Contradictory statements in the literature on the end of use: sold in 1937 and forced (Altaras, 1988 + Puvogel / Stankowski, 1995) and sold in July 1938 (Arnsberg, 1971 + Krause-Schmitt, v. Freyberg, 1995)

Last use: since 1938 / 39 residential