Synagogue

There had been a synagogue in Fürstenberg/Havel since the 18th century. The first evidence of prayers in Fürstenberg dates back to 1764. In the same year, the Jewish community began to ask the duke for permission to buy a house due to increasing membership numbers. They received permission on May 28, 1777, and after 11 years the synagogue was put on record as the purchased house was in need of repair due to water damage. In 1788, a new synagogue was built on a plot of land in the western part of the town.

The New Synagogue on the corner of Askanische Straße and Kantorstraße was built as a successor to the synagogue destroyed in 1938. It is considered the first new synagogue to be built in Saxony-Anhalt since German reunification.

After the devastating 30-year war, a small Jewish community settled in Unterfarrnbach around 1700. The Judenhof was located in the area of today's Unterfarrnbacher Straße 152 – 164. It included several small dwellings and a Jewish school (No. 158), i.e. a prayer room with a mikvah, a ritual bath. … After the middle of the 19th century there was no longer a Jewish community. ...

In Trieblitz / Třebívlice there was a small Israelite community, which was dissolved at the beginning of the 20th century.

The construction of a synagogue was prepared in 1821 by the Jewish religious community of Swinoujscie. The merchant Isenthal extended the rear building of his home (Große Kirchenstraße, today Grunwaldzka) and made the new premises available to the Jewish community. This space soon became too small.  An application made by the Jewish community in 1853 to the state for support in the construction of a synagogue was initially rejected due to the insufficient number of members.

It was only after 1848 that Jews were able to settle in Aussig, as it was a royal city. Jews were not allowed to settle in such a town.

The neoclassical synagogue from the 1880s in the ‚Kleine Wallgasse‘ was financed by donations from members of the community. The official dedication was performed by the Rabbi of Teplice Artur Rosenzweig.

The Jewish community of Soborten was probably one of the oldest in Böhmen. It comprised parts of the districts of Teplitz, Dux and Karbitz. A first wooden synagogue is said to have been destroyed by fire around 1500, after which the Jewish families are said to have left the village.

The first documentary evidence of the existence of a large Jewish settlement in Soborten dates back to the first half of the 17th century, after which almost 70 Jewish families are said to have lived in the village around 1620.