New Synagogue (Darmstadt)

The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") is the synagogue, community centre, and museum of the Jewish community (German: Jüdische Gemeinde) in Darmstadt.[4] Constructed in 1988 for the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht,[5] the 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.[6] Built according to plans by Alfred Jacoby, with stained glass and a Torah ark by British architectural artist Brian Clarke, the complex, also known as the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue, is located on the site of the city's former Gestapo headquarters.[7]

New Synagogue
Neue Synagoge
The Torah ark, stained glass windows and dome of the New Synagogue
Religion
AffiliationJudaism
Year consecrated1988
StatusActive
Location
LocationWilhelm-Glässing-Straße 26, Darmstadt, Germany
Architecture
Architect(s)Alfred Jacoby[1]
TypeSynagogue
StylePostmodern[2]
Completed1988
Specifications
Capacity200[3]
Dome(s)3

The first "newly constructed synagogue in the postwar period to recall the traditional form of a central, domed building",[8] the design marked the start of Jacoby's development of a distinct modern Jewish religious architectural vernacular.[9]

See also
  • 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. 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.
  4. Aeppel, Timothy. "Facing shadows of the past: Germans mark Jewish persecution". The Christian Science Monitor.
  5. "Wer ein Haus baut, der will Bleiben". Darmstädter Echo. Echo Zeitungen GmbH. 10 November 2008.
  6. Hein, Rainer (10 November 2013). "Neue Synagoge in Darmstadt: Zeichen des Glauben, der Versöhnung und Zuversicht". Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  7. Reinhold-Postina, Eva (1988). Neumann, Moritz (ed.). Das Darmstädter Synagogenbuch (in German). Darmstadt: Eduard Roether Verlag.
  8. 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 9781785335549.
  9. Singer, David, ed. (1996). "Federal Republic of Germany: Synagogue boom". American Jewish Year Book. VNR AG. 96: 292.

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