Img. ID: 550046

Memorial Name

Monument for the Synagogue on Münchener Strasse

What is Commemorated?

The former synagogue at Münchener Straße 37

Description:

In front of the school and near the street is a freestanding sculptural monument. On a flat base rises an abstract sculpture that consists of thirteen mostly rectangular stone blocks of different sizes attached and arranged to create an upright asymmetrical design. The monument is not a solid wall; the stones are arranged around a central opening through which one can see and reach. The left uppermost stone shows in relief a seven-branch menorah. An inscription carved on the lower right block notes the site's use as a synagogue.

The base was remade and a new bronze plaque with more historical information was added in 1988. 

Inscriptions

Carved in large letters on the monument:

Hier stand
die 1909
erbaute
Synagogue
der jüdischen
Gemeinde

Translation: Here stood the Synagogue of the Jewish Community built in 1909.

1988 plaque at the base of the monument:

Hier stand von 1909-1956 eine Synagoge. Sie wurde während der Reichspogromnacht
am 9. Nov. 1938 wegen ihrer Lage in einem
Wohnhaus nicht zerstört.
Nach der Vertreibung und Vernichtung
der jüdischen Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger
durch die Nationalsozialisten verlor sie
ihre Funktion und wurde 1956 abgerissen.

Translation: A synagogue stood here from 1909-1956. It was damaged during the Reichspogromnacht on Nov. 9, 1938, but because of its location next to a residential building it was not destroyed. After the eviction and annihilation of the Jewish fellow citizens by the Nazis, it lost its function and was demolished in 1956.

Commissioned by

Bezirksverordnetenversammlung von Schöneberg (Borough Assembly of Schöneberg)