A Jewish home in the heart of Berlin

A Jewish home in the heart of Berlin

The historic site of the former "Kottbusser Ufer Synagogue" in Berlin-Kreuzberg is about to become once again a center for Jewish community, education and culture – a place for encounters, a home for Jewish initiatives, a space for Jewish art and culture.

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Press release on the decision of the competition Jewish Center Fraenkelufer

108 years after the inauguration of the "Synagogue on Kottbusser Ufer", now Fraenkelufer, and 86 years after it was severely damaged during the Reichspogromnacht, a new Jewish community, educational and cultural center is to be built on the historic site. Today, the Jüdisches Zentrum Synagoge Fraenkelufer e.V. association, together with the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district and the Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing, is presenting the results of the competition to realize the reconstruction.

1st prize: Staab Architekten with Atelier LOIDL Landschaftsarchitekten

In an all-day jury meeting, the nine specialist and expert judges selected the winning designs. The decision was unanimous: 1st prize in the realization competition goes to the interdisciplinary team of Staab Architekten with Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten.

Public exhibition on the "Fraenkelufer Jewish Center" competition

18 interdisciplinary planning teams of architects and landscape architects have submitted creative and innovative designs that give shape to this vision and from which the jury has made a selection for the award. All competition entries will be exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin.

Main hall and side wing of the historic synagogue on Kottbusser Ufer

History

The synagogue and the community center are linked to over 100 years of eventful Jewish history in Kreuzberg: from the first consecration in 1916, to the destruction during the Shoah and the Second World War, to the reoccupation and the planned reconstruction.

The Fraenkelufer Synagogue, designed by Alexander Beer, was inaugurated in 1916 and was one of the largest synagogues in Berlin with space for over 1,700 people in the main hall and a total of over 2,000 seats. Even then, it was planned as a kind of community center.

Program & Offers of the Jewish Center

It will be some time before the Jewish Center in Kreuzberg is completed. But even though it still has its own building, the programmes and content have already been in development for several years - geared towards the needs of Jewish initiatives and organizations.

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