A few days after the burning, the ruins were carried away "professionally" and the bill to cover these costs was handed to the Jewish congregation.

[2] All that remained of the synagogue was the Semper-designed Star of David, which Alfred Neugebauer, a fireman, removed from the burning rooftop, hid and returned to the congregation in 1949.

The arches and balcony fronts were richly worked with intricate polychrome foliate and lattice designs in the Moorish style.

[5] For the synagogue he created a Ner Tamid - silver lamp of eternal light, placed before the Torah scrolls,[6] which caught Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima's fancy.

"[9] The synagogue was a plain cube structure, built in a Romanesque style with a humble vestibule and twin towers that marked the entrance to the building.