Designed by Johannes Vieknen in the Art Nouveau style and completed in 1910, the synagogue was the main place of worship for the city's Ashkenazi Jewish community until 1938.

The Jewish community in Wittlich had previously used a smaller synagogue at Himmeroder Straße 8 that fell into disrepair.

The interior comprised a prayer hall for men, a slim torah ark facing toward the east, and galleries for women on three sides.

Typically for the period, the decor combined elements of German art nouveau with touches of neo-romanticism, as with the painted ornamentation surrounding the ark and the sanctuary lamp.

A commemorative plaque in the former torah ark contains inscriptions in Hebrew: Remember, God, the souls of the righteous among the community of Wittlich, who sacrificed their lives for the holiness of Godand German: The Wittlich Synagogue, erected in 1910, was the spiritual center of a thriving Jewish community.