Synagogue

On November 9, 1764, the new synagogue was consecrated in what was then Juden-Kirch-Straße 44, now Mennonitenkirchstraße.

Before that, the service had been held in the house of Krefeld's Mendel Meyer ab, which today, unfortunately, can no longer be located exactly.

The first leader of the community was Baer Abraham Onderich from Metz. For this synagogue, the banker Isaac Meyer donated ten years later a bench for cultic purposes (circumcision), which is preserved to this day and is with the Jewish community in Krefeld.

Since 1978, the Jewish community had rented premises on the second floor of the house Wiedstraße 17 for conversion into a prayer hall. This prayer room could be occupied in 1981. By the growing number of members of the congregation the place was hardly sufficient already in the 1990s.

In the summer of 1898, the synagogue was solemnly consecrated in the former Bahnhofstraße, today's Martin-Luther-Straße.

The brick building, which had been constructed from a mixture of the neo-Islamic and Romanesque styles, was located directly opposite a Protestant church and was a popular motif on picture postcards of the city.

During the November pogroms, the synagogue was set on fire. The inventory was destroyed. The Protestant pastor Wilhelm Veit saved one of the Torah scrolls that night. This is now in the Jewish community center in Krefeld.

"The building used as a synagogue was probably a kind of shed, which was immediately adjacent to the wonhaus in front of it. The floor area was 7.20m in width, 8.20m in length, i.e. 59sqm. The whole building was quite simple and, as it turned out with time, quite poorly made. The entrance was on the west side, as prescribed by the rabbinical rules. Whether there was a special women's section is unclear. In other respects, too, we know little about the furnishings and equipment. It was by no means meager.

In 1829, the Jewish community of Moringen builds its own synagogue on a plot of land "off the beaten track", in Schneehof 1. A half-timbered building is erected, each with four floor-to-ceiling windows with segmental/round arches on the long sides, two windows on the east side. Towards the east there was presumably also an apse for the Torah shrine. Inside, a women's lodge is suspected.