ESSEN, EXPLORING the historic ALTE (OLD) SYNAGOGUE ???? (GERMANY)
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Places to see in ( Essen - Germany ) Alte Synagoge
Places to see in ( Essen - Germany ) Alte Synagoge
The Old Synagogue (German: Alte Synagoge) is a cultural meeting center and memorial in the city of Essen in Germany. It is located in the center of the city on Edmund-Körner-Platz 1 (formerly Steeler Straße 29), close to the present city hall. The memorial center was founded in 1980 and is accommodated in the pre-war Jewish community's synagogue.
The synagogue, together with the attached Rabbinerhaus (House of the Rabbi), which today houses the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute, was finished after a two-year construction period in 1913. It was originally consecrated as the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue). Today the building is one of the largest, best preserved and architecturally most impressive testimonies to Jewish culture in pre-war Germany.
The Essen synagogue was the cultural and social center of the Jewish community. In 1933 it claimed approximately 5,000 members. It served this function until the so-called Reichspogromnacht (also known as Kristallnacht) of 9–10 November 1938, when it was severely damaged on the inside by plundering, though the exterior remained nearly intact. Although Essen itself was very heavily bombed (see Bombing of Essen in World War II), the building itself managed to survive the Second World War without further damage.
From 1945-1959 the former synagogue stood unused as ruin at the edge of the Essen city center. In 1959, the surviving Jewish community, after it had been using Rabbinerhaus as their center, built a new, much smaller synagogue, which is the current place of worship. In the same year, the city of Essen acquired the former synagogue and in the following years of 1960/1961 renovated it into a museum for industrial design, the Haus Industrieform. For this purpose, all existing elements were removed or painted over. The ark for the torah was destroyed; the mosaics and ornaments were painted over. Following the spirit of the time, the inside was completely redesigned to a much more sober form to fit the purpose, no longer showing its former use as a synagogue. The main prayer hall was divided by a new floor and the ceiling was covered up.
A fire, caused by a short-circuit, severely damaged the Design exhibition in 1979. This event and a changed attitude toward handling historic buildings finally caused the city council of Essen to found the current institution Alte Synagoge. From 1986-1988 the entire building, with financial means provided by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, was reconstructed, so that it is again recognizable in its earlier function.
Today the Alte Synagoge is an open house for meetings and discussions. It offers a meeting-place for those interested in Jewish culture and religion, past and present. Cultural events such as concerts, plays, and readings are also offered.
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Visiting a Museum: The old synagogue in Essen
Der Geschichts-Projektkurs des 12. Jahrgangs der Essener Gesamtschule Süd befasste sich mit den Themen Religion, Flucht, Antirassismus und Begegnung. Schließlich entschlossen sich die Teilnehmenden den nach Essen geflüchteten Menschen Ausflugsziele und Sportmöglichkeiten in Essen näher zu bringen. Sie stellten ihre Ideen einer Seiteneinsteigerklasse vor und erstellten Infoclips. Hier der Trailer zum Besuch in der Alten Synagoge in Essen. Mehr TV: townload-tv.de
Trailer Alte Synagoge Essen
Der Film wirft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen bei der Umgestaltung der Alten Synagoge Essen und zeigt die verschiedenen Bereiche der neu eröffneten Dauerausstellung.
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Post-WWII, 1946, Germany: Berlin Synagogue Reopens; Tiergarten Black Market & Damage]
Man walks to door & puts up poster / notice; CU attaching to door sign: “Standiger Gottesdienst...”
16:48:31 Interior. Man on ladder hanging curtain in front of Kottbuser Ufer synagogue altar; other men bring boughs & man screws light bulbs into light; others carry in Torahs.
16:49:00 Interior. Man drops velvet cloth (?) w/ Star of David over railing or ?? Helps put torahs away.
16:49:13 Five men carry containers of torahs past. Repeated.
16:49:40 Jewish Men putting on Tallit & open books on ?? MS rabbi & others chanting / singing. Larger group from rear; from front. Man holding container of scrolls of Torah. Men talking.
16:51:22 MS US soldier w/ shawl talking to man next to him; LS men sitting w/ GI visible.
16:51:35 Slug.
16:51:38 Children in coats running along road, apartment building in background; women following w/ young girls. LS Berlin Tiergarten. Barren / destroyed trees of burned woods w/ trucks & Reichstag in distance. Another angle across Buffalo & Moose animal statues w/ Brandenburg Gate in distance.
16:52:16 Wide road thru park under repair.
16:52:24 High Angle / HA Black market crowd moving about around large tree in corner of empty lot / park. LS across park w/ bomb craters, people walking; other angles of black market crowd in winter coats w/ large damaged Reichstag.
16:53:20 HA MS above group of people around soldiers dispersing men & women; HA MLS crowd w/ some women in fur coats.
16:53:51 Policeman directing traffic w/ ruined Reichstag in background; CU heavy boots, standing on small platform.
16:54:03 MCU People talking & carefully buying & selling w/ badly damaged buildings behind.
16:54:36 MCU Soviet officer taking picture in front of Brandenburg Gate. MS Civilian & soldier talking in front of statue of ??
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Top Tourist Attractions in Essen: Travel Guide Germany
Top Tourist Attractions in Essen: Travel Guide Germany: Botanic Garden, Essen Minster, Grugapark, Museum Folkwang, Schloss Borbeck, The Baldeneysee, The Old Synagogue, The Ruhr Museum, Villa Hügel, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Zollverein Park
Rhinelanders' New Synagogue (1958)
Full title reads: Germany. Rhinelanders' New Synagogue.
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GV Entrance of the new synagogue with various Jewish officials standing in entrance.
CU Light inside synagogue, pan down to show people seated in the pews the altar, and standing beside the altar is Rabbi Rothschild.
GV People in galleries watching, pan down to the people in the pews.
CU Some Jewish men wearing top hats.
CU Two Jewish officials by the altar.
GV The congregation rising.
SV Procession of Jewish church officials along the aisle towards the camera.
SV The procession leaving the synagogue.
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In Memory of the Jews Of Speyer, Germany (synagogue & mikveh)
I produced this video of the ancient and historical city of Speyer, Germany. Historical records from the Holocaust tell of the former inhabitants of the ancient city- It is believed that Jews may have lived in Speyer pre-Christian times. In 1084 the Bishop invited the Jews to settle in Altspeyer and had the area surrounded by a wall for their protection. Remains of the ancient synagogue and mikveh can be viewed today.
The Old Synagogue
In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria (the Anschluss). As a result, about 180,000 Jews in Austria were faced with imminent Nazi persecution, and the only way to survive was to leave the country. It was very difficult for a Jew to get a visa from any of the consulates in Vienna. Dr. Ho Feng Shan rejected this anti-Semitism and decided to issue numerous visas to the Jews seeking to escape Austria after the Anschluss. With his help, thousands of Jewish refugees managed to flee Austria for safe haven in Shanghai.
Fascinating Story of the Erfurt Synagogue
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'After Liberation' picture - Prague synagogue, 2012
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For the Jewish population, post-war Czechoslovakia was fundamentally different from pre-war Czechoslovakia founded
largely by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. The trauma of the hateful Second Republic, the genocide of most Jews, and the experience of obsequious collaborators and informers could not but leave
their traces on survivors.
Who were the Prague Jews after May 1945? Apart of those who survived in Theresienstadt (Terezin), survivors from other camps and death marches gradually returned to Prague, and so did soldiers of foreign armies, refugees returning from free world, and Shanghai. All of them were searching for their relations.The number of various kinds of survivors also grew in Prague - DPs, transients, refugees, and people from Subcarpathian Ruthenia who opted to retain Czechoslovakian citizenship after the province was annexed by the Soviets, and moved to the western part of the country. Most of them had unclear legal standing and were at the mercy of often confused authorities.
With the liberation, there were indications that despite everything that had happened ... . ...government still considered the Jews to be Germans, or at least agents of Germany ... . Returnees from camps faced difficulties getting ...
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ניסו מתיתיה דריוтанго בדידות ['бдидут'] ('Одиночество') בליווי תזמורת חנן וינטרניץ - בדידותo
Essen - The Zeche Zollverein Cultural Site | Discover Germany
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Inauguration d'une synagogue à Munich
Description : Inauguration d'une synagogue à Munich en juin 1947 en présence du Général Lucius Clay, gouverneur militaire délégué du secteur américain d'occupation.
Date : 1947-06-00
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Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction
An exhibit featuring lost Jewish heritage from Germany recently had its Canadian premiere in Winnipeg. Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction features 3D reconstructions of over 25 of the more than 1000 synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht.
3 Äpfel Design Apartments, Essen, Germany, HD revisión
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The Zollverein Industrial Complex is the city's most famous landmark and just 4 km away. Visit the Cathedral of Essen or enjoy an evening of culture at the Grillo Theatre, both 1.5 km from 3 Äpfel Design Apartment.
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Amazing Grace - German Staff Band
The Old Synagogue (German: Alte Synagoge) is a cultural meeting center and memorial in the city of Essen in West Germany.
The memorial center was founded in 1980 and is accommodated in the pre-war Jewish community's synagogue. The synagogue was finished after a two-year construction period in 1913. It was originally consecrated as the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue). Today the building is one of the largest, best preserved and architecturally most impressive testimonies to Jewish culture in pre-war Germany.
The Essen synagogue was the cultural and social center of the Jewish community. In 1933 it claimed approximately 5,000 members. It served this function until the so-called Reichspogromnacht (also known as Kristallnacht) of 910 November 1938, when it was severely damaged on the inside by plundering, though the exterior remained nearly intact. Although Essen itself was very heavily bombed the building itself managed to survive the Second World War without further damage.
From 1945-1959 the former synagogue stood unused as ruin at the edge of the Essen city center. In 1959, the surviving Jewish community built a new, much smaller synagogue, which is the current place of worship. In the same year, the city of Essen acquired the former synagogue and in the following years of 1960/1961 renovated it into a museum for industrial design. For this purpose, all existing elements were removed or painted over. The ark for the torah was destroyed; the mosaics and ornaments were painted over. Following the spirit of the time, the inside was completely redesigned to a much more sober form to fit the purpose, no longer showing its former use as a synagogue. The main prayer hall was divided by a new floor and the ceiling was covered up.
A fire, caused by a short-circuit, severely damaged the Design exhibition in 1979. This event and a changed attitude toward handling historic buildings finally caused the city council of Essen to found the current institution Alte Synagoge. From 1986-1988 the entire building, with financial means provided by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, was reconstructed, so that it is again recognizable in its earlier function.
Today the Alte Synagoge is an open house for meetings and discussions. It offers a meeting-place for those interested in Jewish culture and religion, past and present. Cultural events such as concerts, plays, and readings are also offered.
(Wikipedia)
Hands on Synagogue
This past summer, architectural preservationists, master timber framers, art students, and other volunteers gathered in Sanok, Poland, to help recreate the roof and inner cupola of the Gwozdziec Synagogue. The synagogue, which was built in the 17th and 18th centuries and destroyed during World War II, is considered one of the finest examples of wooden synagogue architecture of its time. Once the synagogue components are built, they will have to be broken down and shipped off to Warsaw, where they will be installed to form the centerpiece of the Museum of the History of Jews, which is set to open in 2013. The reconstruction project is a collaboration of Handshouse Studio and the museum.
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(20 Dec 2011) HUNGARY SYNAGOGUE
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Budapest, Hungary, 12 December 2011
1, Various of the outside of the Great Synagogue.
2, Close of the Hungarian flag flies behind a star a David.
3, Medium of tourists looking at a map.
4, Medium of tourists going into the synagogue.
5, Medium of the interior through a door.
6, SOUNDBITE (English) Szabolcs Borbely, art historian:
As the architecture, it's so important to know that the architect of the synagogue was a German born, Christian architect. His name was Ludwig Forster. He was born in Germany, but in that time, in the 1850s, when the building was made, he was working in Vienna. He was the chief architect of the city of Vienna. But the guy, he was a Christian. He usually was building churches and not synagogues. So this is the reason why, also from the outside, we have the towers. The towers are not usual for a synagogue. We don't need the towers, but for a church, it�s a very common thing. And not just on the outside, also the interior part. The interior part has several elements came obviously from the Christian architecture. I mean, we have the three aisles, the basilican shape downstairs. Then we have the pulpits, which is a very unique thing for a synagogue. We have two of them, a pair of pulpits.
7, Tilt of a pulpit.
8, Wide of tourists walking inside.
9, Various interior shots
10, SOUNDBITE (English) Szabolcs Borbely, art historian:
This is the second largest synagogue in the world after the New York's Emanu-El Temple. And this is the largest synagogue here in Europe. And, you know, it�s not about the seat numbers, because we have 3000 seats here, but in Jerusalem there is a synagogue, the Belz Beit synagogue in the central of the city which can host more than 6000 people. But this is not the reason. The reason is the inner space. We have more then a 1000 square meters, more then 10.000 square feet as the inner space of the synagogue. So that's why it's so special.
11, Wide of the interior space.
12, SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Frolich, chief rabbi of the synagogue:
I served as the chief of rabbi of the Hungarian Armed Forces for 15 years. But the greatest feeling is to be the rabbi of this magnificent synagogue.
13, Wide of the view from the Torah-ark.
14, Medium of tourists taking pictures.
15 Various interior shots
16, SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Frolich, chief rabbi of the synagogue:
Before the second world war it was an other world, a different world. Everything was full of Jews. There were more than a million Jews in the historical Hungary. Now we have about 150.000 Jews.
17, Medium of a Synagogue's courtyard with a Holocaust memorial and the grave yard of those who were buried here while synagogue was the part of the ghetto.
18, Close of graves from 1944 and 1945.
19,Close of grave.
20, Medium of tourists walk with Tree of Life memorial in the background.
21, Wide of the Tree of Life memorial.
22, Close of sign (reads in Hungarian: Remember!).
23, Medium of tourists looking at the memorial.
24, Focus shifts onto its metallic leaves carrying the names of Holocaust victims.
25, SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Kreutzer, tourist from Vienna, Austria:
Concerning my impression, you really see how many people were killed.
26,Various of Tree of Life
27, SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Kreutzer, tourist from Vienna, Austria:
The symbol is maybe in the direction of death, but the colour and the impression are not like edges. It�s round and circle, it�s smooth. It shows me like the good go(es) on.
28,Various Tree of Life
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This year's Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, is underway.
In Hungary, the focus for many Jews will be centred upon Europe's biggest synagogue in Pest.
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Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction (Clip 1 of 3)
The Holocaust Memorial Center was pleased to present Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction. The exhibition had its North American premiere on August 29th and ran through November 29th, 2010.
The 1994 arson attack on a synagogue in Lübeck, Germany motivated a number of students at the Darmstadt Technical University to explore an important chapter in the history of German architecture. Using Computer Aided Design (CAD) to simulate true-to-life three-dimensional conceptions and spatial arrangements, they virtually reconstructed synagogues that were targets of Nazi violence. The reconstruction process was intended not only to create interest in valuable historical monuments, but also in architecture now lost.
The elaborate CAD reconstructions provide a representative survey of the architecture of synagogues in Germany before their destruction during Kristallnacht in November of 1938. What is more, they convey visual impressions of the diversity, the splendor and the significance of the synagogue in the history of German urban architecture from the early nineteenth century until 1938.
The exhibition displayed the reconstructions of 14 synagogues which, until the time of their destruction, were an integral part of the urban landscape of Cologne, Berlin, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hanover, Kaiserslautern, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg and Plauen. The exhibit also makes an important contribution to the development of new and contemporary forms of restoration.
This is an exhibition of the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa/Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) and the Technische Universität Darmstadt.