Synagogue in Kępno
Object Detail
Building Date
1815
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1893; 1924
Architect/ Maker
Scheffler, Fryderyk Wilhelm (architect)
Scheffler, Karol Fryderyk (architect)
Jonasz, son of Samuel Zanwel (Torah ark maker)
Weber, Karol (master builder) (Unknown)
Scheffler, Karol Fryderyk (architect)
Jonasz, son of Samuel Zanwel (Torah ark maker)
Weber, Karol (master builder) (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Abandoned
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Part of shulhoyf
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 55 with ill.;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, "Polish Synagogues in the 19th Century" in Antony Polonski (ed.), From Shtetl to Socialism: Studies from Polin (London-Washington, 1993), pp. 212-231 (first published in Polin, vol. 2), p. 219;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 397-9 with ills.;
Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 101;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/kepno/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/10934,synagoga-2009-rok/;
http://www.muzeumkepno.pl/synagoga.html;
Lazzeri Katarzyna, Synagoga w Kępnie, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław 2005, niepublikowana praca licencjacka dostępna w bibliotece muzeum)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Eva Maria Kraiss
Photographer
Photograph Date
2017
Remarks
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