Synagogue

Last use: commercial premises, Portuguese Center

The first evidence of a settlement of Jews in Arnsberg dates from 1600. 71 years later, the city no longer tolerated Jewish settlement on municipal territory, which is why the Jews were expelled from Arnsberg. 

As early as March 1930, windows were broken. Last use: not specified

A plaque commemorates only the use that had been there before the building was used as a synagogue 

Last use: residential

Contradictory statements in the literature about the current use: workshop (Brocke, Schwarz, 1999) and undeveloped (Zacharias, 1988)

Last use: workshop

Before the consecration of the synagogue in Promenadenstraße (today Synagogenplatz) in 1862 the Jewish community in Aachen used other prayer houses. The location of the first synagogue is not known. The second synagogue was located in Hirschgraben and was used until the consecration of the new synagogue. The construction of the synagogue in Promenadenstraße was necessary in view of the growth of the community.

Cult objects have been brought to Rotenburg / Fulda and destroyed there November 1938.

Last use: garage

Contradictory statements in the literature on the date of the desecration: November 8, 1938 (Krause-Schmitt, v. Freyberg, Wehe, 1995) and November 9, 1938 (Altaras, 1988)

Last use: warehouse of the Raiffeisenbank

Last use: residential

Last use: carpentry and residential use