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Object Alone
Synagogue in Altkirch
Object Detail

Building Date
1834-1837

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1851, 1950

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
France | Grand Est région | Haut-Rhin | Altkirch
| 6, Rue de Ferrette

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks
repaired in 1851

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

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
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue_d'Altkirch

http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/altkirch_synagogue.htm

Dominique Jarrassé, Une histoire des Synagogues françaises: entre Occident et Orient (Arles, 1997), p. 407;

Dominique Jarrassé, "Synagogues françaises du Moyen Âge à 1939," Monuments historiques, no. 191 (février 1994): La patrimoine juif français, pp. 45-52, p. 52;

Dominique Jarrassé, L'age d'or des synagogues (Paris, 1991), p. 168, ill. on p. 62;

www.sdv.fr/judaisme/synagog/hautrhin/a-f/altkirch.htm with ills.

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2022/01/14/france-synagogue-for-sale/


Rothé, Michel and Max Warschawski. Les Synagogues d'Alsace et leur Histoire (Jerusalem: Chalom Bisamme, 1992)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2008

Remarks

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