Kassel Synagogue

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title: "Kassel Synagogue" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1938-disestablishments-in-germany", "19th-century-synagogues-in-germany", "buildings-and-structures-in-kassel", "jews-and-judaism-in-hesse", "religious-buildings-and-structures-in-hesse", "rundbogenstil-synagogues", "synagogues-completed-in-1839", "synagogues-destroyed-during-kristallnacht-(germany)"] description: "Former Reform synagogue in Kassel, Germany" topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel_Synagogue" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Former Reform synagogue in Kassel, Germany ::

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Field	Value
name	Kassel Synagogue
native_name
image	Synagoge-Kassel-1.jpg
image_upright	1.4
caption	The former synagoge in 1839
religious_affiliation	Judaism (former)
festival
organisational_status	Synagogue (1839–1938)
functional_status	Destroyed
location	Untere Königsstraße, Kassel, Hesse
country	Germany
map_type	Germany Hesse
map_size	250
map_relief	1
map_caption	Location of the former synagogue in Hesse
coordinates
architect	Albrecht Rosengarten
architecture_type	Synagogue architecture
architecture_style	Rundbogenstil
year_completed	1839
date_destroyed	November 1938
(during Kristallnacht
elevation_m
module
footnotes
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A new synagogue for the congregation, on Bremer Street, was completed in 2000.

History

Construction

In 1827, a previous synagogue was closed due to its dilapidated state. In 1828, the government offered a new location for the construction of a new synagogue at the corner of Untere Königsstraße and Bremerstraße. Several blueprints (by August Schuchardt, Conrad Bromeis, and Julius Eugen Ruhl) were rejected by the community. Finally, a blueprint by Albrecht Rosengarten was accepted, and after three years of construction the new synagogue was opened on August 8, 1839. It was the first Rundbogenstil synagogue, and the style was widely adopted in Central Europe and abroad in the following decades.

Nazi rule and destruction of the synagogue

On November 7, 1938, in the course of Kristallnacht, the synagogue was desecrated by the Nazis; part of its interior decoration and ritual accessories were burned outside. On November 11, 1938, the city authorities decided to demolish the synagogue. A memorial plaque was installed at its former location with the following inscription:

Post-war period

A new prayer hall was built in Heubnerstraße in 1952/53. As it became too small by the 1960s, the decision was made to build a new synagogue with a community centre. On December 12, 1965, the new building with the community hall for 100 people was inaugurated.

As it in turn became too small for the growing Jewish community, another new synagogue, designed by Alfred Jacoby, in the Modernist style, built of concrete, was completed in 2000. Funds for its construction were provided by, among others, the government of Hesse, the city of Kassel, the North-Hesse administrative districts, the local branch of the Evangelical Church in Germany, the Catholic Diocese of Fulda, and through private donations.

References

References

1. (1 June 2017). "Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History". Berghahn Books.
2. Wischnitzer, Rachel. (1964). "Architecture of the European Synagogue". [[Jewish Publication Society of America]].
3. (n.d.). "Contemporary Synagogue at Bremer St. in Kassel". Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]].

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