syn/europe/germany

The Synagogues of Europe
PAST AND PRESENT
Germany

Below you will find a series of postcards that depict various synagogues that currently or once stood in Europe. Most of these photographs have been purchased, taken, or otherwise obtained by those visiting these towns and cities, and they have been subsequently submitted to the Museum to be placed online. Some of these synagogues might still be extant, i.e. still being used as synagogues, but others lay abandoned and perhaps in a state of disrepair, or are currently being used for other purposes. Some have been restored.

Current town names are used to indicate the location of each synagogue.

The Museum welcomes further submissions, as this exhibition is forever ongoing and evolving. Please include the name of the country, town/city, synagogue (if known), and the month and year the photo was taken.

Please click on the thumbnail photos to see the enlarged versions.

AUSTRIA	BELARUS	BELGIUM	BOSNIA- HERZEGOVINA	BULGARIA
CROATIA	CZECH REPUBLIC	DENMARK	ESTONIA	FINLAND
FRANCE	GERMANY	GREAT BRITAIN	GREECE	HUNGARY
ITALY	LATVIA	LITHUANIA	MOLDOVA	NETHERLANDS
NORWAY	POLAND	PORTUGAL	ROMANIA	RUSSIA
SERBIA	SLOVAKIA	SLOVENIA	SPAIN	SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND	TURKEY	UKRAINE

GERMANY
	AUFHAUSEN, GERMANY
	AUGSBURG, GERMANY (1910) ^TW
	BERLIN, GERMANY (1998) New Synagogue Oranienburger Straße The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") was built 1859–1866 .
	*BOCHUM, GERMANY (200)** Neue Bochumer Synagoge
	BONN, GERMANY Ausgebrannte Synagogue Poppelsdorf Poppelsdorf is a neighborhood five minutes from the city center.
	BONN, GERMANY Beuel Synagogue Friedrich-Friesen-Strasse and Siegfried-Leopold A plaque now stands as a memorial to a Jewish citizen of Bonn named Siegfried Leopold, who was taken away to the Theresienstadt camp in 1945.
	BONN, GERMANY (1938) Brennende Synagogue (am Rhein)
	CHEMNITZ, GERMANY
	DRESDEN, GERMANY (1860) Alte Synagogue From Wikipedia by Gottfried Semper ("Semper-Synagogue") Built b. 1839-40, destroyed in 1938 From a lithograph by L. Thumling
	DRESDEN, GERMANY New Dresden Synagogue The Alte Synagogue was badly damaged during a pogrom in 1938 and was soon torn down. Sixty years to the day, construction was started on this newer, more modern synagogue. The new synagogue was consecrated in Nov 2001.
	ESSEN, GERMANY (2005) Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue) Steeler Straße 29
	FRANKFURT, GERMANY West End Synagogue
	KARLSRUHE, GERMANY (c. 1810) Karlsruher Synagoge
	MUNICH, GERMANY Ohel Jakob Synagogue Sankt-Jakobs-Platz New main synagogue in Munich, built in 2004-6.

	MUNICH, GERMANY (cir 1900) Künstlerhaus and synagogue.
	NUREMBERG, GERMANY (c. 1890-1900) The Pegnitz shore and synagogue courtesy of the Library of Congress
	PADEBORN, GERMANY (2006) Padeborn Neue Synagoge
	REGENSBURG, GERMANY (c. 1915)
	REGENSBURG, GERMANY (c. 1915) Seemingly today the former synagogue is now a church.

^{TW - from
Tomek Wisniewski,
www.bagnowka.com.}