Barntrup Synagogue

Residential - Barntrup – Alverdissen (Barendorf), North Rhine-Westphalia

"Later, in 1872, a synagogue was inaugurated in a private residence on Krumme Strasse;...Renovated in 1909, the Barntrup synagogue was not used during the Weimar period...On Pogrom Night, rioters destroyed the interior of the Barntrup synagogue...Both synagogues were sold to private buyers in 1939...the Barntrup synagogue was used as a residence and inn until 1978, when it was demolished and replaced by a new building. A memorial was unveiled in Barntrup in 1988."

Nurit Borut

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: Pinkas HaKehillot Germania/ פנקס הקהילות גרמניה (Hebrew), [published by] Yad Vashem, 1992: North West Germany, Ein Denkmal in Barntrup, Erika and Martin Böttcher [Eds.], in: Panu Derech - Bereitet den Weg, [publisher] Schriften der Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit, 1992.

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Date Added	Feb 10, 2020
Category	Residential
Country	DE
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
City	Barntrup – Alverdissen (Barendorf)
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Barntrup Synagogue

Nurit Borut

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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