Synagogue

Between the home and barn of the Jewish family Kamm

The synagogue of Russ stood at the steamer landing stage. Since October 2015, a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach (second picture) has stood in roughly the same place.

The courtyard for the synagogue was purchased for 8,000 thalers donated by the landowner Tiel-Winckler.

The synagogue was a small, one-story building built in the neo-Romanesque style with a sloping roof and rectangular floor plan. There was arcade decoration in the side elevations. Corner pilasters were one of the characteristic elements. The architect Ignatz Grünfeld was most likely inspired by a synagogue in Wolfhagen. There were 200 seats for men and 120 seats for women.