On Jewish traces through Altenschönbach and Prichsenstadt

May
Sat
3

On Jewish traces through Altenschönbach and Prichsenstadt. The Förderverein ehemalige Synagoge Kitzingen invites you to an excursion with Wolf-Dieter Gutsch to Jewish places of remembrance in Prichsenstadt and Altenschönbach on Saturday, May 3, starting at 2 p.m. in Prichsenstadt at the parking lot behind the elementary school. Altenschönbach was already one of the most populous Jewish communities in the district of Gerolzhofen with the necessary ritual facilities in the 18th century. The new synagogue built in the 1840s, in which King Ludwig I is said to have personally intervened as the designer, can still be seen today in the converted building. In 1988/89, the true treasure of a genizah consisting of around 1,000 individual items was discovered in the building. This collection of unusable ritual objects, as well as profane writings and objects, from the synagogue's attic has now been saved and documented in the Veitshöchheim Jewish Museum. In Prichsenstadt, Wolf-Dieter Gutsch will primarily commemorate the town's Jewish inhabitants, their everyday lives and their fate in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Treffpunkt: Prichsenstadt /Parking lot behind the elementary school Synagoge.Kitzingen@web.de