Alte Synagoge
Alte Synagoge stands in Erfurt as a medieval synagogue with origins in the late eleventh century. Most of its structure dates from around 1250 to 1320, while the intact roof preserves Europe’s oldest surviving synagogue building.
Today, the building houses a museum of local Jewish history, opened in 2009. The Erfurt Treasure contains 3,141 silver coins and more than 700 pieces of goldsmiths’ work and jewellery, found in 1998 near a medieval Jewish quarter. Facsimiles of Hebrew manuscripts from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries include the rare Erfurt Tosefta, a compilation of oral law. After damage during the Erfurt Massacre of 1349, the building became a warehouse for five centuries before research and conservation restored its historical traces.
The Alte Synagoge, together with Erfurt’s Mikveh and Stone House, joined the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023.
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