Mahnmal Hörder Synagoge

Mahnmal Hörder Synagoge stands in Dortmund as a history memorial marking the site of a former Jewish synagogue. A steel stele now occupies the place where the Hörde synagogue once stood. As Dortmund’s Jewish community grew, it built the synagogue, which Rabbi Abraham Frank later inaugurated. SA men set the building on fire during the November pogrom, and its ruins were cleared afterwards.

The Jewish artist Israel Lanzmann designed the stele, which the local community helped establish in the late twentieth century. Its inscription records Jewish life here and the persecution that followed. It names humiliation, expulsion, deportation and murder, then warns against allowing those crimes to happen again. The wording recalls Jewish residents who lived alongside Dortmund’s wider community for centuries. That history connects a local place of worship with the destruction of Jewish life under Nazi rule. Wheelchair access makes the site reachable to visitors exploring Dortmund.