Communal Synagogue in Halberstadt
Object Detail
Remains of the 1879 addition
Building Date
1709-1712, 1879
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1879, destroyed in 1938
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Stone
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Only a part of a wall of the 1879 addition is preserved
Present Usage
Memorial
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 Jewish quarter
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
E (No return)
Bibliography
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen Thies (eds.), Synagogenarchitektur in Deutschland vom Barock zum 'Neuen Bauen' (Braunschweig, 2000), pp. 48-49
Katrin Keßler, "Architektur und Ritus der Synagoge," in: Judentum: Wege zur geistigen Befreiung. Materialen der Dessauer Herbstseminare 2000 und 2001 zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland (Dessau, 2002), pp. 44-58.
Keßler, Katrin, Ritus und Raum der Synagoge (Petersberg, 2007), 102–27, 171–256.
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen Thies (eds.), Synagogenarchitektur in Deutschland: Dokumentation zur Ausstellung "… und ich wurde ihnen zu einem kleinen Heiligtum … " - Synagogen in Deutschland (Petersberg, 2008), pp. 123-8.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2001
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 51.897106, 11.041965