Synagogue

The Great Synagogue in the Neo-Renaissance style was built between 1885 and 1887 by the Berlin architects Ende and Boeckman on the former Reitbahnstraße (today's ul. Bogusławskiego).

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.