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Patrimoine & Culture
Synagogue
📍 Bar-le-Duc, Meuse
· 17 quai Carnot, 55000 Bar-le-Duc
À propos
Built in 1871-1872 by architect Charles Demoget on the right bank of the Ornain, Bar-le-Duc?s synagogue is representative of the Moorish style that characterized synagogues in the second half of the 19th century, particularly in eastern France. The presence of a Jewish community in Bar-le-Duc
in Bar-le-Duc as early as the High Middle Ages. Until the 12th century, it enjoyed relative freedom in the exercise of its profession, before intolerance and ghettoization drove Jews out of the city. It wasn't until the early 18th century that Jewish families settled in Bar-le-Duc.
Until 1866, the community - smaller than in Verdun, where the rabbinate of the Meuse was established - met in a private house. In 1868, a plot of land on the banks of the River Ornain was acquired to give worship more dignity, and a synagogue was built, financed by subscriptions, the City of Bar-le-Duc and state aid.
As was often the case in Lorraine during this period, the architect chose the "Orientalized Romanesque" style. In Bar-le-Duc, Moorish decor is found both on the exterior and interior of the building: horseshoe arches and spandrels sculpted with scrolls and interlacing, painted decoration on the walls, stained-glass windows and wooden ceiling. Israelite symbols (damping tables of the law on the pediment, star-of-David-shaped window surrounds, inscriptions from the Book of Genesis)
are linked to Corinthian pilasters, an echo of local Renaissance architecture.
On the eve of the Second World War, Bar-le-Duc?s Jewish community still numbered over twenty-five families. War, deportation and the Holocaust (whose victims are commemorated by a plaque inside the building) have left the community too small to maintain regular worship activities.
Listed as a historic monument in 2013.
in Bar-le-Duc as early as the High Middle Ages. Until the 12th century, it enjoyed relative freedom in the exercise of its profession, before intolerance and ghettoization drove Jews out of the city. It wasn't until the early 18th century that Jewish families settled in Bar-le-Duc.
Until 1866, the community - smaller than in Verdun, where the rabbinate of the Meuse was established - met in a private house. In 1868, a plot of land on the banks of the River Ornain was acquired to give worship more dignity, and a synagogue was built, financed by subscriptions, the City of Bar-le-Duc and state aid.
As was often the case in Lorraine during this period, the architect chose the "Orientalized Romanesque" style. In Bar-le-Duc, Moorish decor is found both on the exterior and interior of the building: horseshoe arches and spandrels sculpted with scrolls and interlacing, painted decoration on the walls, stained-glass windows and wooden ceiling. Israelite symbols (damping tables of the law on the pediment, star-of-David-shaped window surrounds, inscriptions from the Book of Genesis)
are linked to Corinthian pilasters, an echo of local Renaissance architecture.
On the eve of the Second World War, Bar-le-Duc?s Jewish community still numbered over twenty-five families. War, deportation and the Holocaust (whose victims are commemorated by a plaque inside the building) have left the community too small to maintain regular worship activities.
Listed as a historic monument in 2013.
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