18th of June 2023, Celebration weekend and ceremony

Former ´Landsynagoge in Roth´ - memorial and place of encounter

Aerial view of the synagogue between half-timbered houses.

Drohnenaufnahme, © Julian Kriesche

The Arbeitskreis Landsynagoge Roth, a project circle dedicated to preserving the synagogue in the village of Roth near Marburg in Hesse, Germany, welcomes you to our website. We would like to introduce you to our goals and inform you about our projects and activities.

We provide guided tours of the memorial site, the synagogue in Roth, and of the Jewish Cemetery, as well as a variety of cultural activities. Join us in solemn remembrance of the displacement, persecution, and murder of our Jewish neighbors during the Nazi Regime. Perhaps you’ll find our work so interesting that you yourself would like to become a member of our group.

We would also like to introduce you to the history of the Jewish Community that shaped and influenced life in Roth over the centuries before being violently eradicated within less than ten years of Nazi reign. The physical witnesses of this lost culture: the synagogue, the place of the mikveh, the Jewish cemetery, are here for you to see and experience. We also include valuable information about the neighbouring village Fronhausen’s Jewish past and remaining artifacts on our website.

Yours truly,

The Managing Board of the Arbeitskreis Landsynagoge Roth

The video about the anniversary event is on our YouTube channel.

Ceremony in cooperation with the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf (by invitation)

Start:

10:30 a.m. Ceremony (for invited guests)

13:00 Public street party

We are celebrating 25 years of restoration of the synagogue in Roth and cordially invite you to join us!
When: Sun., June 18, 2023, from 1:00 p.m.
Where: in and in front of the synagogue, Lahnstraße 28 in Weimar-Roth

Program:
▪ Virtual reconstruction of the synagogue -
can be experienced with VR glasses
▪ Documentation of the mikvah in the backyard
▪ Dance performance by the dance group of the Jewish community
community of Marburg, also to join in, approx.
15:00 hrs
▪ Social get-together with food and drinks
drinks

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