Jewish community centre for the communities Duisburg, Muelheim and Oberhausen

image author: Wolfgang Arendt

The Jewish community centre for the communities Duisburg, Mülheim/Ruhr and Oberhausen was created after plans by architect Zvi Hecker at the Duisburger inland harbour in 1999. The synagogue is the first, which was the first to be built in Duisburg after the 2nd World War. The building complex takes up the forms of the construction of the Springwall and the old town park. Like a book the community centre fans out into the park and allows a view as well as the entry for the community and citizens of the old town.

image author: Wolfgang Arendt

The premies of the new building is situated near the old synagogue at the Junkernstraße, constructed in 1874 and destroyed during the Pogrom Night in 1938. With the return of the Jewish community
at this place a piece of culture history of the historic Duisburg is being continued: Situated next to each other again are the churches of the Jews, the Catholics (Karmel-church) and the Protestant Christians (Salvator-church). Opposite the synagogue is the Yitzhak-Rabin-Platz situated, which the widow of the murdered Israeli prime minister, Lea Rabin, inaugurated. The old town park also acts as a memory.