Königsberg Synagogue

The New Liberal Synagogue was a synagogue in Königsberg ( Prussia).

It was designed as the Hannover synagogue and the Breslau synagogue in the style of eclecticism and historicism according to models of Worms and the Aachen Cathedral. The building was designed by the Berlin architectural office Cremer & Wolff Stone, who had been honored in the architectural competition in 1892. The reconstruction of the synagogue was destroyed in 1938 at the old site was approved in 2008; the foundation stone was laid in 2011.

History

After those of Berlin and Breslau, the Jewish community Königsberg was the third largest in Germany. Beginning of the 20th century existed in Königsberg several synagogues of the liberal, the Polish and Hasidic Jews. The Orthodox Adass Yisroel had a prayer room at the synagogue road.

The largest Königsberg synagogue was the New Liberal Synagogue. She stood at the east side of Linden Street (now Oktjabrskaja Street), opposite the honey bridge to Cathedral Island. On August 25, 1896, she was inaugurated as the third synagogue in East Prussia provincial capital. Present were Oberpräsident Wilhelm von Bismarck, Mayor Hermann Theodor Hoffmann, Professors Charles of Gareis and Adalbert Bezzenberger, the city commander Eugene Keyler and the Second Mayor Karl Brinkmann.

The building was a high domed central building on the model of the Aachen Cathedral, flanked by rounded towers like the Worms Cathedral. The façade adorned with a high portal with a rosette.

During the pogroms of November 1938, the synagogue was destroyed. On the wall of surviving, formerly adjacent Jewish orphanage ( built in 1904, designed by Fritz Behrendt ) today is a plaque that commemorates the New Synagogue.

The reconstruction of the New Synagogue at Old Town is approved since 2008 and is based on the historical model, but done with modern -plan interior. A symbolic foundation stone was set in 2011.

Interior