Bergische Synagogue

The Bergische Synagogue is the meeting and worship house of the Jewish community in Wuppertal.
After the Barmer Synagogue, completed in 1897 according to plans by Ludwig Levy, was burned down by the National Socialists on the night of the pogrom in November 1938, and subsequently, during the NS dictatorship, the Jewish community was dismantled and many of its members murdered, the Wuppertal Jewish community grew in the 1990s, especially due to the influx of so-called contingent refugees, from 65 to about 2000 members. It quickly became clear that the community needed a new synagogue. On the initiative of former Wuppertal Mayor Ursula Kraus, the Friends of the New Synagogue Association was founded in 1996 to promote the construction of a new synagogue in Barmen. On November 10, 1998, the first symbolic groundbreaking could take place. The property for the new building, costing around 4.5 million euros, was made available at the request of the United Evangelical Community Gemarke in Wuppertal-Barmen by the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. Broad support for the construction of a synagogue also came from the cities of Solingen, Remscheid, and Velbert.

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