New Synagogue (Düsseldorf)

The New Synagogue is located on the Zietenstraße in Golzheim. It is the municipal center of the Jewish citizens of Düsseldorf.

History

In 1953 the plan was after the Great Synagogue inserted during the pogroms of November 1938 on November 10 on fire and the ruins on 29 November of the same year had been canceled, developed to build a new synagogue. It was built by the GmbH Düsseldorf branch of the Aachen Contractors Grünzig and inaugurated on September 7, 1958 in presence of Prime Minister Franz Meyers. Your architect was the Frankfurt Hermann Zvi Guttmann, of the designs provided in the phase of reconstruction for a variety of synagogues. The New Synagogue, the church of a unified community, describes in the external form an oval. It is covered with a flat copper hood and clad on the outside walls with bright natural stone slabs. Inside it has curved walls and " compact forms ... with curves " and evokes " reminiscences of the closed, geometric style of the 30s ". Typical of the synagogue architecture Guttmann, in addition to the rounded forms and large window openings with vertical emphasis and structure, lettering on the main facade and the structural shielding of the synagogue additional community center.

On 2 October 2000 arson attack on a synagogue. The public reaction triggered the " revolt of the decent " from. Perpetrators were two young men of Arab descent.

According to a draft of the architectural firm Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky was in the years 2009 and 2010, the community center, which is attached to the back to the synagogue, including the Leo Baeck hall generously rebuilt and extended.