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Half-timbered Synagogue (Fachwerksynagoge), Detmold

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Half-timbered Synagogue (Fachwerksynagoge), Detmold

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Location: Detmold, Kreis Lippe, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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January 2, 2022

From 1666, Jews in Detmold were allowed to celebrate the New Year and the Day of Prayer, and from 1670 they were allowed to celebrate church services and holidays in their private homes together with other Jews in the state, in return for a corresponding fee to the Rentkammer. At that time they were not yet permitted to build a public synagogue.[1]

Two rooms used by the Jewish community in Detmold are considered to be the predecessors of the half-timbered synagogue:

From 1712 to 1742 there was a synagogue in the house of the musician Spangenberg at Krummen Straße 28.[2][3]
In the neighboring house at Krumme Straße 30, the court agent Raphael Levi maintained a private synagogue in an extension.[2][3]

Both buildings are no longer preserved.

The building on Exterstraße, built in 1683, was originally used as a barn. The Detmold Jews acquired the barn in 1742 from the lawyer Johann Philipp Culemann, restored it and converted it into a synagogue.[2] The location set back from the street was characteristic of a Jewish church before the time of the emancipation of the Jews.

At the same time as the barn was purchased, the house at Exterstraße 8 was also bought, which was converted into a Jewish school in 1803/04.[3]

It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the Jewish community decided to build a new synagogue on Lortzingstrasse. The buildings on Exterstraße were sold to the innkeeper Wilhelm Schmidt in 1905 and the move to the new building, which was finally burned down on the Night of Broken Glass, took place.[2] The former synagogue subsequently served as a locksmith shop and warehouse. Nowadays the Christian Community uses it as a church and has given it the name "Michael Chapel".

(de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachwerksynagoge_(Detmold))

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Bumble-Bee

January 2, 2022

In the backyard of the former synagogue there is a monument by Winfried Hogrebe. This shows an installation which, as a central element, contains four undamaged pillars from the synagogue, which was destroyed in 1938. The design emerged as the winner of a competition held by the city of Detmold in 1987 and was inaugurated on November 3, 1988.[3] A plaque placed at the foot of the building wall at the same time bears the inscription "We commemorate the victims of National Socialist tyranny, including the six million Jews who were murdered in German concentration camps."[4]

On the courtyard side to the right of the building there is a commemorative plaque naming the victims of the persecution of the Jews in Detmold. This commemorative plaque, initiated by the archive educator Wolfgang Müller and commissioned by the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Lippe, was inaugurated on November 9, 1995 and was unique in East Westphalia-Lippe at the time.[4] In 2001, the list of victims was revised based on new findings.[3]

Since 1988, a commemoration event for the victims of National Socialism has been held in the courtyard of the synagogue every year on November 9th.

(de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachwerksynagoge_(Detmold))

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Michel ✔

May 23, 2022

On the courtyard side to the right of the building there is a commemorative plaque naming the victims of the persecution of the Jews in Detmold.

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