At first , the Jewish community had to make do with a simple prayer room that had been set up in one of the Jewish houses . In the '' Judenordnung '' decreed by the Warsberg lordship in 1749 , it was stipulated that a synagogue was not to be built too near the church . Shortly after 1750 , a new synagogue ( actually a new prayer room ) was established ; a new decree , a '' Synagogenordnung '' , was made for that to regulate the “ ritual character ” in the “ '' shul '' at Hennweiler ” . To be able to hold regular services , Jewish inhabitants from Bruschied and Schneppenbach also came to Hennweiler . In the 1781 great fire , the house that contained the prayer room was burnt down . It is not known when the Jewish community managed to set up a new one . It is believed that in the 1830s , community members Joseph Gottschall and his wife Sara acquired a building that could be used to establish a synagogue . For this synagogue , there came in February 1838 from the Israelite Consistory a new edict . By 1868 the building had fallen into disrepair and badly needed to be renovated . In 1895 , the building had once again fallen into such disrepair that it was closed by police order . There were plans to build a new synagogue . Since , however , most Jewish families lived in relative poverty , it was thought that , among other things , a door-to-door collection in other Jewish communities in the '' Regierungsbezirke '' of Koblenz and Trier might be undertaken to raise the needed funds , but the authorities forbade this . In 1896 , approval was granted to build a new synagogue . Master mason Johann Böres , from Hennweiler , built the new place of worship on Obergasse ( a lane ) ; the quarrystone and the sand was put at the builders ’ disposal by the municipality from its own quarry . The new synagogue was consecrated amid much merrymaking on 22 August 1896 . Until the mid 1930s , the Hennweiler synagogue was the hub of the local Hennweiler-Bruschied Jewish community 's religious life . The land title register listed the following as the synagogue 's owners : Martin Becker ( broker ) , Bernhard Braun ( cigar maker ) , Salomon Kahn ( merchant ) , Alexander Sender ( merchant ) , Max Sender ( merchant ) , Jakob Schmelzer ( merchant ) , Moses Vogel ( merchant ) , Jacob Vogel ( merchant ) , Lazarus Jakobi ( merchant ) , Leopold Binnes ( merchant ) and Siegmund Sender ( merchant ) , all of whom were from Hennweiler , and Michael Bornhard I ( merchant ) and Michael Bornhard II ( merchant ) , both of whom were from Bruschied . During the pogrom in November 1938 ( actually the evening after Kristallnacht ) , the synagogue was defiled . The windows and doors were smashed up and the pews were chopped up with axes . The Torah scrolls as well as other written matter , and the Judaica were burnt out in the street . In the spring of 1939 , the Jewish community was forced by the Nazis to sell the synagogue property and the Jewish graveyard to the municipality . In the winter of 1939/1940 , the synagogue building was further desecrated by being used by Wehrmacht troops as a munitions storage . It was then used from August 1940 to February 1945 as a school gymnasium . After 1945 , the building was once more transferred to the municipality according to a decision handed down at restitution proceedings in March 1951 . The municipality then sold it to a private citizen , and before the year had ended , the new owner had had it torn down so that a house could be built on the lot . The synagogue 's address was Obergasse 29
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