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Wiesbaden Synagogue: Overall view

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posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. 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']

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To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.

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