Binswangen Explained

Image Coa:Wappen Binswangen.svg
Coordinates:48.5667°N 49°W
Image Plan:Binswangen in DLG.svg
State:Bayern
Region:Schwaben
District:Dillingen
Elevation:440
Area:11.91
Postal Code:86637
Area Code:08272
Licence:DLG
Gemeindeschlüssel:09 7 73 116
Mayor:Anton Winkler[1]
Leader Term:2020 - 26
Party:FW
Website:www.binswangen.de

Binswangen is a municipality in the district of Dillingen in Bavaria in Germany. The town is a member of the municipal association Wertingen.

The town's 1836 synagogue, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner and notable as the first to use the horseshoe arch of Moorish architecture for windows and portals, was plundered in the Reichskristallnacht but not set ablaze because of its proximity to other buildings. It was restored beginning in 1987 and since 1996 has served as a community center, open to visitors on Sundays.[2] [3] Other remnants of Binswangen's former Jewish community, which dates back to at least 1609, are the memorial site of the Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis and the landmark Schilling House (ca. 1840).

Notes and References

  1. https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden
  2. Web site: Ehemalige Synagoge in Binswangen . 2010-06-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718230658/http://www.landkreis.dillingen.de/sehenswert/synagoge_binswangen.htm . 2011-07-18 .
  3. Web site: Explore the Dillingen Region, Germany, Bavaria, Swabia, tourism, travel guide. International Trading Company. Welland. https://web.archive.org/web/20141011005130/http://www.itcwebdesigns.com/tour_germany/dillingen_region.htm. 2014-10-11. 2024-08-07. dead.