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Synagogue in Westhoffen
Object Detail

Building Date
1868

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
France | Grand Est région | Bas-Rhin | Westhoffen
| Place de la Synagogue

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Cultural center

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Listed as protected monument


Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Dominique Jarrassé, Une histoire des Synagogues françaises: entre Occident et Orient (Arles, 1997), p. 411; Dominique Jarrassé, "Synagogues françaises du Moyen Âge à 1939," Monuments historiques, no. 191 (février 1994): La patrimoine juif français, pp. 45-52, p. 51 with ill.; Dominique Jarrassé, L'age d'or des synagogues (Paris, 1991), p. 168, ill. on p. 96; http:/judaisme.sdv.fr/synagog/basrhin/r-z/westhof.htm with ills. http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/westhoffen_synagogue.htm
Rothé, Michel and Max Warschawski. Les Synagogues d'Alsace et leur Histoire (Jerusalem: Chalom Bisamme, 1992)

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2015

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