New Synagogue (Darmstadt)

The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") is the synagogue, community centre, and museum of the Jewish community (German: Jüdische Gemeinde) in Darmstadt.[5] Inaugurated on in 1988, the synagogue was built as part of a citizens’ initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht[6] Known also as the ‘Holocaust Memorial Synagogue’, the architectural complex was designed to fulfil the needs of the city's Jewish population, who had been without a place of worship since the 1938 pogrom when Darmstadt's three synagogues were destroyed.[7] Built according to plans by Alfred Jacoby, with a significant programme of stained glass windows[8] designed by British architectural artist Brian Clarke. The religious and cultural complex is located on the site of the city's former Gestapo headquarters.[9]

New Synagogue, Darmstadt
Neue Synagoge Darmstadt
The Torah ark, stained glass windows and dome of the New Synagogue
Religion
AffiliationJudaism
Year consecrated1988
StatusActive
Location
LocationWilhelm-Glässing-Straße 26, Darmstadt, Germany
Geographic coordinates49°52′03″N 8°39′17″E
Architecture
Architect(s)Alfred Jacoby[1]
TypeSynagogue
StylePostmodern[2][3]
Completed1988
Specifications
Capacity200[4]
Dome(s)3
Materialsstone
Website
http://jg-darmstadt.de/

History

Present day

The cultural complex is the site of the local museum of Jewish history and culture,Museum der Jüdischen Gemeinde Darmstadt.

Architecture

The first "newly constructed synagogue in the postwar period to recall the traditional form of a central, domed building", the design marked the start of Jacoby's development of a distinct modern Jewish religious architectural vernacular.[10]

Further reading
  • Reinhold-Postina, Eva (1988). Neumann, Moritz (ed.). "Das Darmstädter Synagogenbuch" (in German). Darmstadt: Eduard Roether Verlag.
  • Frenzel, Martin (2008). "Eine Zierde unserer Stadt": Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Liberalen Synagoge Darmstadt. Darmstadt: Justus von Liebig Verlag.
  • "Die Bürgerschaft gibt der jüdischen Gemeinde eine Synagoge zurück": Einweihung der Synagoge in Darmstadt 9. November 1988:Ansprachen. (1989). Germany: Magistrat der Stadt Darmstadt, Presse und Informationsamt.

See also
  • The north wall of the New Synagogue, with stained glass by Brian Clarke
    The north wall of the New Synagogue, with stained glass by Brian Clarke

References
  1. Schwartz, Hans-Peter (1988). Die Architektur Der Synagoge (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
  2. Geller, Jay; Morris, Leslie, eds. (21 September 2016). "Between Memory and Normalcy". Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational. University of Michigan Press. p. 289. ISBN 9780472130122.
  3. Necker, Sylvia (1 June 2017). "Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination". In Lässig, Simone; Rürup, Miriam (eds.). Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History: Volume 8 of New German Historical Perspectives (First ed.). Berghahn Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-78533-554-9.
  4. Alicke, Klaus-Diete (17 November 2008). "Darmstadt (Hesse)". Lexikon: Der Jüdischer Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum (in German) (First ed.). Gütersloher Verlagshaus. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  5. Aeppel, Timothy. "Facing shadows of the past: Germans mark Jewish persecution". The Christian Science Monitor.
  6. "Wer ein Haus baut, der will Bleiben". Darmstädter Echo. Echo Zeitungen GmbH. 10 November 2008.
  7. Hein, Rainer (10 November 2013). "Neue Synagoge in Darmstadt: Zeichen des Glauben, der Versöhnung und Zuversicht". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Beuth Verlag GmbH. ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  8. "Synagogue in Darmstadt, Germany". The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art. Jewish Architecture. Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art. Obj. ID: 26635. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  9. Reinhold-Postina, Eva (1988). Neumann, Moritz (ed.). Das Darmstädter Synagogenbuch : eine Dokumentation zur Synagogen-Einweihung am 9. November 1988 : im Auftrag des Magistrats der Stadt Darmstadt und der Jüdischen Gemeinde Darmstadt (in German). Darmstadt: E. Roether Verlag. OCLC 27644657.
  10. Singer, David, ed. (1996). "Federal Republic of Germany: Synagogue boom". American Jewish Year Book. VNR AG. 96: 292.

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