Reform Synagogue, Plauen
Fritz Landauer
1928–1930
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This modern synagogue in Plauen (in the Saxony region) was one of the few synagogues built in Germany in the economically turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. Jews and non-Jews contributed funds for its construction and shared space. Built in the style of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), a movement in German art that rejected expressionism for a less subjective approach. In architecture, this trend was known as Neues Bauen (New Building) and featured a plain, practical approach to design and construction. The Plauen synagogue was a largely unadorned white box sitting atop a red, brick base, combining communal and sacred space in one structure. It was destroyed on Kristallnacht (November 10, 1938).
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Virtual reconstruction. Courtesy Technische Universität Darmstadt, Digital Design Unit.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 8.
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