
Known and unknown buildings from the Wilhelminian era
Behind the façades of Berlin's tenements once hid small courtyard synagogues - places of everyday life, characterized by neighborhood, community and religious life.
Architectural historian Dr. Carsten Schmidt takes his audience on a search for traces of the synagogues in Brunnenstraße, Prinzenallee and Liesenstraße. He reconstructs their architecture, use and design and shows how closely these places of worship were linked to the neighborhoods in which they were built. In contrast to the large Berlin synagogues, they were places of everyday life, supported by associations and neighborhoods, and thus reflect a multifaceted history of Jewish life in the city.
Findings from Schmidt's new book Synagoge Feuerland: Der zerstörte Tempel von Berlin-Mitte will also be included in the lecture. He thus opens up new perspectives on almost forgotten places of Jewish life and makes visible how diverse and multifaceted the Jewish history of the city was - especially in places where hardly any traces can be found today.
Dr. Carsten Schmidt is an architectural historian whose research interests include the urban development of Berlin and the traces of Jewish life and its buildings.
(IN GERMAN)
Dates
October 2025
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