New Synagogue (Darmstadt)
| New Synagogue | |
|---|---|
Neue Synagoge | |
 The Torah ark, stained glass windows and dome of the New Synagogue | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Judaism |
| Year consecrated | 1988 |
| Status | Active |
| Location | |
| Location | Wilhelm-Glässing-Straße 26, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Geographic coordinates | 49°52′03″N 8°39′17″E / 49.86751561386504°N 8.654670146066472°ECoordinates: 49°52′03″N 8°39′17″E / 49.86751561386504°N 8.654670146066472°E |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Alfred Jacoby[1] |
| Type | Synagogue |
| Style | Postmodern[2] |
| Completed | 1988 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 200[3] |
| Dome(s) | 3 |
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]
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]
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Gallery[]
The north wall of the New Synagogue, with stained glass by Brian Clarke
References[]
- ^ Schwartz, Hans-Peter (1988). Die Architektur Der Synagoge (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Aeppel, Timothy. "Facing shadows of the past: Germans mark Jewish persecution". The Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "Wer ein Haus baut, der will Bleiben". Darmstädter Echo. Echo Zeitungen GmbH. 10 November 2008.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Reinhold-Postina, Eva (1988). Neumann, Moritz (ed.). Das Darmstädter Synagogenbuch (in German). Darmstadt: Eduard Roether Verlag.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Singer, David, ed. (1996). "Federal Republic of Germany: Synagogue boom". American Jewish Year Book. VNR AG. 96: 292.
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