About Old Synagogue
The Alte Synagoge Old Synagogue in Erfurt, Germany, is one of the great preserved medieval synagogues in Europe, its oldest parts dating again to the past due eleventh century. Most parts of the constructing date from around 1250–1320. It is concept to be the oldest synagogue building intact to its roof still status in Europe. Since 2009 it's been used as a museum of nearby Jewish records. It houses the Erfurt Treasure, a hoard of medieval coins, goldsmiths' work and jewelry located in 1998. It also has facsimiles of the Erfurt Hebrew Manuscripts, an vital series of twelfth-14th century spiritual texts that belonged to the medieval Jewish community of Erfurt. The Historic Synagogues of Europe task, finished via the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has given the Old Synagogue, Erfurt its highest level of importance score: 4 International The building is of super architectural, urban or historic importance.
It has particular capabilities and is specially influential internationally as an architectural pattern. The oldest components of the building have been dated by using dendrochronology to 1094. There become a 2d creation phase inside the 12th century, from which a part of the western wall, with a sandstone double-arched window, has been preserved. Around 1270, a bigger synagogue incorporating elements of the sooner constructing was built. The western façade, with 5 lancet home windows and a massive rosestte window, dates from this time.
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