New Synagogue (Darmstadt)
New Synagogue, Darmstadt | |
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Neue Synagoge Darmstadt | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Judaism |
Year consecrated | 1988 |
Status | Active |
Location | |
Location | Wilhelm-Glässing-Straße 26, Darmstadt, Germany |
Geographic coordinates | 49°52′03″N 8°39′17″E / 49.8675°N 8.65467°E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Alfred Jacoby[1] |
Type | Synagogue |
Style | Postmodern[2][3] |
Completed | 1988 |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 200[4] |
Dome(s) | 3 |
Materials | stone |
Website | |
http://jg-darmstadt.de/ |
The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") is the synagogue, community centre, and museum of the Jewish community (German: Jüdische Gemeinde) in Darmstadt.[5] Inaugurated on in 1988, the synagogue was built as part of a citizens’ initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht[6] Known also as the ‘Holocaust Memorial Synagogue’, the architectural complex was designed to fulfil the needs of the city's Jewish population, who had been without a place of worship since the 1938 pogrom when Darmstadt's three synagogues were destroyed.[7] Built according to plans by Alfred Jacoby, with a significant programme of stained glass windows[8] designed by British architectural artist Brian Clarke. The religious and cultural complex is located on the site of the city's former Gestapo headquarters.[9]
History[edit]
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Present day[edit]
The cultural complex is the site of the local museum of Jewish history and culture,Museum der Jüdischen Gemeinde Darmstadt.
Architecture[edit]
The first "newly constructed synagogue in the postwar period to recall the traditional form of a central, domed building", the design marked the start of Jacoby's development of a distinct modern Jewish religious architectural vernacular.[10]
Stained glass[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
- Reinhold-Postina, Eva (1988). Neumann, Moritz (ed.). "Das Darmstädter Synagogenbuch" (in German). Darmstadt: Eduard Roether Verlag.
- Frenzel, Martin (2008). "Eine Zierde unserer Stadt": Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Liberalen Synagoge Darmstadt. Darmstadt: Justus von Liebig Verlag.
- "Die Bürgerschaft gibt der jüdischen Gemeinde eine Synagoge zurück": Einweihung der Synagoge in Darmstadt 9. November 1988:Ansprachen. (1989). Germany: Magistrat der Stadt Darmstadt, Presse und Informationsamt.
See also[edit]
Gallery[edit]
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The north wall of the New Synagogue, with stained glass by Brian Clarke
References[edit]
- ^ Schwartz, Hans-Peter (1988). Die Architektur Der Synagoge (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
- ^ Geller, Jay; Morris, Leslie, eds. (21 September 2016). "Between Memory and Normalcy". Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational. University of Michigan Press. p. 289. ISBN 9780472130122.
- ^ Necker, Sylvia (1 June 2017). "Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination". In Lässig, Simone; Rürup, Miriam (eds.). Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History: Volume 8 of New German Historical Perspectives (First ed.). Berghahn Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-78533-554-9.
- ^ Alicke, Klaus-Diete (17 November 2008). "Darmstadt (Hesse)". Lexikon: Der Jüdischer Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum (in German) (First ed.). Gütersloher Verlagshaus. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ^ Aeppel, Timothy. "Facing shadows of the past: Germans mark Jewish persecution". The Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "Wer ein Haus baut, der will Bleiben". Darmstädter Echo. Echo Zeitungen GmbH. 10 November 2008.
- ^ Hein, Rainer (10 November 2013). "Neue Synagoge in Darmstadt: Zeichen des Glauben, der Versöhnung und Zuversicht". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Beuth Verlag GmbH. ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "Synagogue in Darmstadt, Germany". The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art. Jewish Architecture. Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art. Obj. ID: 26635. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ Reinhold-Postina, Eva (1988). Neumann, Moritz (ed.). Das Darmstädter Synagogenbuch : eine Dokumentation zur Synagogen-Einweihung am 9. November 1988 : im Auftrag des Magistrats der Stadt Darmstadt und der Jüdischen Gemeinde Darmstadt (in German). Darmstadt: E. Roether Verlag. OCLC 27644657.
- ^ Singer, David, ed. (1996). "Federal Republic of Germany: Synagogue boom". American Jewish Year Book. 96. VNR AG: 292.
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