Synagogue of Halle (Saale)
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The synagogue of Halle (Saale) is the house of worship of the
Jewish community in
Halle (Saale) , which had 555 members in 2018. The building was originally built in 1894 as the
Tahara House of the
Jewish cemetery , laid out in 1864 northeast of downtown Halle, from white and yellow bricks according to plans by the architects
Gustav Wolff and Theodor Lehmann. The conversion to a
synagogue took place from 1948 after some renovations (consecrated in 1953) as a replacement for the old synagogue in the city center, which was destroyed during the
November pogroms in 1938 .
It is a simple hall building in the Moorish style with large arched windows. A tower in the middle of the front bears one of the characteristic four onion domes . Since the corners were also emphasized, a richly structured three-tower facade was created.
Memorial plaque for the terrorist attack of 9 October 2019 with the synagogue in the background. Wreaths of flowers can be seen in the foreground © Datesa/cc-by-sa-4.0
When it was redesigned as a synagogue, the sacred building received various fixtures: the
Bimah ,
Torah ark , stalls and a
women’s gallery were added. The east entrance had to be closed for the Torah shrine, as this – as is traditionally customary – was placed in front of the east wall.
The
Halle synagogue shooting occurred on 9 October 2019 and continued in nearby
Landsberg . After unsuccessfully trying to enter the
synagogue in Halle during the
Jewish holiday of
Yom Kippur , the attacker, later identified as 27-year-old Stephan Balliet, fatally shot two people nearby and later injured two others. Federal investigators called the attack
far-right and
antisemitic terrorism. The federal
Public Prosecutor General took over the investigation and declared it to be a “violation of Germany’s internal security.” Balliet, a German
neo-Nazi from Saxony-Anhalt, was
charged with two counts of
murder and seven counts of attempted murder. On 10 November 2019, Balliet confessed to the charges before an
investigative judge at the
Federal Court of Justice . On 21 December 2020, he was sentenced to
life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention .
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