• Culture

    New synagogue

    NEW SYNAGOGUE REGENSBURG! Did you know that the Jewish community is the oldest in Bavaria? In German-speaking countries, only the communities in Cologne and Trier are older. What Regensburg has been missing for the last 80 years, however, is a synagogue. Now there is: the new synagogue in Regensburg was opened on February 27, 2019. This is no coincidental date, as 500 years earlier, in February 1519, the Regensburg council expelled its Jewish population from the city. The Jewish quarter,…