Designed by Otto Simonson in the Moorish Revival style, the synagogue was completed in 1855 and destroyed by Nazis on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht.

The ornate Moorish Revival synagogue was built in 1855, designed by Otto Simonson, a German Jewish architect who had studied under Gottfried Semper.

The synagogue stood approximately in the west of the inner city ring road on the corner plot Gottschedstraße 3 / Zentralstraße.

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