posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00authored byG. Massiot & cie
Destroyed 1938.\u000a\u000aIn the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 10, 1938, Wiesbaden's large synagogue on Michelsberg was destroyed. The synagogue had been designed by Phillip Hoffmann and built in 1869. The building is a revival style and harks back to Venetian Italo-Byzantine with bulbous domes, inlaid walls and tracery. During the Third Reich, a total of approximately 1200 Wiesbaden Jews were deported and murdered.
History
Date Created
1910-01-01
Date Modified
2017-06-30
Spatial Coverage
Wiesbaden|Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany: Michelsberg Street
Temporal Coverage
before or circa 1910
Cultural Context
['Byzantine Revival', 'Nineteenth century']
Rights Statement
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