New Synagogue (Darmstadt) Explained
| New Synagogue |
| Native Name: | German: Neue Synagoge |
| Image Upright: | 1.4 |
| Religious Affiliation: | Reform Judaism |
| Rite: | Nusach Ashkenaz |
| Festivals: | --> |
| Organisational Status: | Synagogue |
| Organizational Status: | --> |
| Functional Status: | Active |
| Religious Features Label: | Design features |
| Religious Features: | Stained-glass windows by Brian Clarke |
| Location: | Wilhelm-Glässing-Straße 26, Darmstadt, Hessen |
| Country: | Germany |
| Map Type: | Germany Hesse |
| Map Size: | 250 |
| Map Relief: | 1 |
| Architect: | Alfred Jacoby |
| Architecture Type: | Synagogue architecture |
| Architecture Style: | Postmodern |
| Year Completed: | 1988 |
| Date Destroyed: | --> |
| Capacity: | 200 worshippers |
| Dome Quantity: | Three |
| Materials: | Stone; concrete |
| Elevation Ft: | --> |
| Footnotes: | [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] |
The New Synagogue (German: Neue Synagoge) is a Reform Jewish congregation, synagogue, community centre, and Jewish museum (German: Jüdische Gemeinde), located in Darmstadt, in the state of Hessen, Germany.[6]
History
Inaugurated on in 1988, the synagogue was built as part of a citizens’ initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht.[7] 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.[8] The religious and cultural complex is located on the site of the city's former Gestapo headquarters.[9]
The cultural complex is the site of the local museum of Jewish history and culture, Museum der Jüdischen Gemeinde Darmstadt.
Architecture
The building was designed by Alfred Jacoby in the Postmodernist style, and features stained glass windows designed by British architectural artist Brian Clarke.[1]
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]
See also
Further reading
- 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.
Notes and References
- Web site: Post-WWII Synagogue in Darmstadt . Historic synagogues of Europe . . n.d. . 22 June 2024 .
- Book: Schwartz, Hans-Peter . Die Architektur Der Synagoge . 1988 . Deutsches Architekturmuseum . Frankfurt am Main . German.
- Book: Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational . 21 September 2016 . University of Michigan Press . 9780472130122 . Geller . Jay . 289 . Between Memory and Normalcy . Morris . Leslie.
- Book: Necker, Sylvia . Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History: Volume 8 of New German Historical Perspectives . 1 June 2017 . Berghahn Books . 978-1-78533-554-9 . Lässig . Simone . First . 170 . English . Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination . Rürup . Miriam.
- Book: Alicke, Klaus-Diete . Lexikon: Der Jüdischer Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum . 17 November 2008 . Gütersloher Verlagshaus . First . German . Darmstadt (Hesse) . https://www.jüdische-gemeinden.de/index.php/gemeinden/c-d/106-darmstadt-hessen . 25 December 2019.
- News: Aeppel . Timothy . Facing shadows of the past: Germans mark Jewish persecution . The Christian Science Monitor .
- News: 10 November 2008 . Wer ein Haus baut, der will Bleiben . Darmstädter Echo . Echo Zeitungen GmbH.
- News: Hein . Rainer . 10 November 2013 . Neue Synagoge in Darmstadt: Zeichen des Glauben, der Versöhnung und Zuversicht . German . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Beuth Verlag GmbH . 9 March 2023 . 0174-4909.
- Book: Reinhold-Postina, Eva . Das Darmstädter Synagogenbuch : eine Dokumentation zur Synagogen-Einweihung am 9. November 1988 : im Auftrag des Magistrats der Stadt Darmstadt und der Jüdischen Gemeinde Darmstadt . E. Roether Verlag . 1988 . Neumann . Moritz . Darmstadt . German . 27644657.
- 1996 . Singer . David . Federal Republic of Germany: Synagogue boom . American Jewish Year Book . VNR AG . 96 . 292.
