Synagogue and Community Centre - Essen, Germany
Posted by: g300td
N 51° 26.841 E 007° 01.482
32U E 362737 N 5701424
The synagogue in the southeastern part of the town.
Waymark Code: WMNE6R
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Date Posted: 02/26/2015
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1945 holocaust survivors founded a new Jewish community in Essen.
The grounbreaking ceremony for the new synagogue in Sedanstraße took place on 7/24/1958. This is the place where the former youth centre had been destroyed by the Nazis in the Progromnacht 1938.
The architects Dieter Knoblauch and Heinz Heise finished the building on 10/21/1959.
This synagogue is a monument since 12/9/1999.