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Stylised wall painting with Hebrew script: Love your neighbour, for he is like you.

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Former Landsynagoge in Roth - memorial and place of encounter

Aerial view of the synagogue between half-timbered houses.The synagogue is supported by the Working Group Landsynagoge Roth. The association is committed to its preservation and use. It serves as a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and a learning center for children, young people, and adults. It hosts concerts, lectures, and other cultural events. Roth is a district of the municipality of Weimar in Hesse.

Interior view of the synagogue in the twenties.©ArchitecturaVirtualis GmbH; screenshot, reconstruction in the 20´s

Interior view of the synagogue around 1900.©ArchitecturaVirtualis GmbH; screenshot: reconstruction around 1900.

Since our anniversary in 2023, they can experience the original interior of the synagogue with the help of virtual reality glasses.

Here is a film about the reconstruction.

Dr. -Ing. Marc Grellert of ArchitecturaVirtualis GmbH (cooperation partner of the Technical University of Darmstadt) has created this work. It is part of an overall project in Germany that reconstructs synagogues destroyed during the Nazi era.

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