Regensburg Synagogue

Regensburg Synagogue

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caption=Postcard of the Jewish Synagogue in Regensburg, c.1915
location= Regensburg, Germany
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status=Destroyed synagogue
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year_completed=1912. Destroyed November 9, 1938.
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The original Regensburg Synagogue, erected between 1210 and 1227, was an edifice in Old Romanesque style on the site of the former Jewish hospital, in the center of the ghetto, where the present Neue Pfarre stands. Two etchings made by Albrecht Altdorfer of the synagogue shortly before it was destroyed on February 22, 1519 provide the first portrait of an actual architectural monument in European printmaking. In 1519 following the death of Emperor Maximilian, who had long been a protector of the Jews in the imperial cities, extracting from them substantial taxes in exchange, the city of Regensburg, which blamed its economic troubles on its prosperous Jewish community, expelled the 500 Jews. The Jews themselves had demolished the interior of their venerable synagogue, on the site of which a chapel was built in honor of the Virgin. According to a chronicle the exiles settled, under the protection of the Duke of Bavaria, on the opposite bank of the Danube, in Stadt-am-Hof, and in villages in the vicinity; from these they were expelled in the course of the same century. In 1669 Jews were again permitted to reside in Regensburg but it was not until April 2, 1841 that the community was able to dedicate its new synagogue. In 1907 however, it was demolished for fear of collapse. Rebuilt in 1912 at a different place, when the town had a Jewish population of about 600, it was destroyed by the Nazis on November 9, 1938 during Kristallnacht.

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* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=126&letter=R The Jewish Encyclopedia: Ratisbon]


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