Synagogue in Benfeld
Object Detail
Building Date
1846
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1876 (by Kahn), 1922, 2021
Style
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Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
The synagogue was originally built in 1846. It was enlarged and restructured 30 years later, and an organ was installed in 1895.
Condition
Present Usage
Synagogue
Present Usage Details
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Organ (built 1895)
Urban significance
Significance Rating
2 (Regional)
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Bibliography
Consistoire Central de France: Annuaire 99 (Paris, 1999), p. 313;
http://www.tourisme67.mobi/2000ansdarchitecture/fiches/synagogue_benfeld.php
https://www.fondation-patrimoine.org/les-projets/synagogue-de-benfeld/60269
Jarrassé, Dominique, L'age d'or des synagogues (Paris: Herscher, 1991), p. 167, ill. on p. 9.
Jarrassé, Dominique, "Synagogues françaises du Moyen Âge à 1939," Monuments historiques, no. 191 (février 1994) (La patrimoine juif français): 45-52, pp. 45-52, p. 49.
Jarrassé, Dominique, Une histoire des Synagogues françaises: entre Occident et Orient (Arles: Actes sud, 1997), p. 407.
Jewish Heritage Europe, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021/01/19/france-benfeld-synagogue/, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021/03/19/france-bas-rhin-alsace/, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2024/11/19/france-grants/.
Wikipedia, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue_de_Benfeld, http://judaisme.sdv.fr/synagog/basrhin/a-f/benfeld.htm.
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