Obj. ID: 20872
Jewish Architecture Synagogue in Głogówek, Poland
Description from the Virtual Shtetl website:
The synagogue in Glogowek (1 Szkolna St.) was built in 1864, according to the project of Frankel Wien. The building was erected by Schulstrasse. In the 1930s the building was renovated.
The synagogue had a rectangular base measuring 11.7m x 19m. Characteristic towers were erected at the corners of the massive structure. There was a vestibule by the western wall, with the ladies gallery on the first floor. The Aron Hakodesh was placed under a portal crowned with a copula. The ladies gallery was supported by cast-iron pillars.
During Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938) the Nazis burnt the synagogue, nevertheless the building survived the war and was adapted to a storehouse. A new ceiling and new interior walls were built, the windows were reconstructed. The cast-iron pillars supporting the ladies gallery preserved. At the beginning of the 1950s the semi-circular apse from the eastern side was pulled down. In the 1990s the building was reconstructed to serve as a shop. In 2008 it was adapted for apartments.
sub-set tree:
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Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), 196.
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https://sztetl.org.pl/en/node/75/112-synagogues-houses-of-prayer-and-others