Synagogue (Colmar)
The synagogue in Colmar, the capital of Haut-Rhin department in Alsace (France), was inaugurated in September 1843. It is located in the Rue de la Cicogne # 3. Since 11 July 1984, it is protected as a monument historique.
The synagogue in Colmar, the capital of Haut-Rhin department in Alsace (France), was inaugurated in September 1843.
It is located in the Rue de la Cicogne # 3. Since 11 July 1984, it is a monument historique geschützt.Bereits for 1279 is narrated that the first synagogue burned down in Colmar and was subsequently rebuilt. She stood in the Jews Schulgasse.
During the persecutions in the plague it was confiscated in 1349 and since the second half of the 14th century existed until the expulsion 1511/12 a synagogue on the corner in derJudengasse, today Rue Berthe Molly.Anfang 19th century was initially an oratory in the "Zunftstube the plowmen" set and 1843, the new synagogue was finally inaugurated. It was renovated in 1885 and 1913 and repaired after the period of National Socialism. She is still the center of the Jewish community in Colmar.Der new monumental synagogue was built in the neo-Romanesque style and has the only synagogue in Alsace a small bell on the roof.
The freestanding building is located on a plot at the narrow end of three roads open so that the synagogue is already visible from afar. The forecourt is surrounded by a wall and you enter the property through a large iron door. The portal to this highly visible side is provided with a semicircular fanlight and manufactured by a decorative framing of fluted pilasters, made of local red sandstone highlighted. In addition, there is a French and Hebrew inscription. The portal is flanked on both sides by arched windows.
After a cornice and a frieze of sandstone slabs, there is a triple arched windows with stained glass. The middle window represents the tablets and about a Star of David. After another cornice and a sandstone masonry, on which a clock is mounted, a round window follows the stressed with sandstone triangular gable in the center of which befindet.Die long sides of the synagogue has simple, possess eight arched windows on the ground floor and on the first floor. This gives the interior of the synagogue much Tageslicht.Die tripartite gallery is supported by columns with simple capitals. At a central location, in the middle of the broad center aisle, there is the Bima and at the end, the portal towards the Torah shrine.
The benches of the faithful are among the galleries for the men and in the galleries for Frauen.Während the German occupation of Alsace during World War II was plundered and devastated the synagogue. It was then as a storeroom zweckentfremdet.
An the wall of the synagogue plot there is a memorial plaque to the victims of Nazi persecution in 1940
The synagogue in Colmar, the capital of Haut-Rhin department in Alsace (France), was inaugurated in September 1843. It is located in the Rue de la Cicogne # 3. Since 11 July 1984, it is protected as a monument historique.
The synagogue in Colmar, the capital of Haut-Rhin department in Alsace (France), was inaugurated in September 1843.
It is located in the Rue de la Cicogne # 3. Since 11 July 1984, it is a monument historique geschützt.Bereits for 1279 is narrated that the first synagogue burned down in Colmar and was subsequently rebuilt. She stood in the Jews Schulgasse.
During the persecutions in the plague it was confiscated in 1349 and since the second half of the 14th century existed until the expulsion 1511/12 a synagogue on the corner in derJudengasse, today Rue Berthe Molly.Anfang 19th century was initially an oratory in the "Zunftstube the plowmen" set and 1843, the new synagogue was finally inaugurated. It was renovated in 1885 and 1913 and repaired after the period of National Socialism. She is still the center of the Jewish community in Colmar.Der new monumental synagogue was built in the neo-Romanesque style and has the only synagogue in Alsace a small bell on the roof.
The freestanding building is located on a plot at the narrow end of three roads open so that the synagogue is already visible from afar. The forecourt is surrounded by a wall and you enter the property through a large iron door. The portal to this highly visible side is provided with a semicircular fanlight and manufactured by a decorative framing of fluted pilasters, made of local red sandstone highlighted. In addition, there is a French and Hebrew inscription. The portal is flanked on both sides by arched windows.
After a cornice and a frieze of sandstone slabs, there is a triple arched windows with stained glass. The middle window represents the tablets and about a Star of David. After another cornice and a sandstone masonry, on which a clock is mounted, a round window follows the stressed with sandstone triangular gable in the center of which befindet.Die long sides of the synagogue has simple, possess eight arched windows on the ground floor and on the first floor. This gives the interior of the synagogue much Tageslicht.Die tripartite gallery is supported by columns with simple capitals. At a central location, in the middle of the broad center aisle, there is the Bima and at the end, the portal towards the Torah shrine.
The benches of the faithful are among the galleries for the men and in the galleries for Frauen.Während the German occupation of Alsace during World War II was plundered and devastated the synagogue. It was then as a storeroom zweckentfremdet.
An the wall of the synagogue plot there is a memorial plaque to the victims of Nazi persecution in 1940
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