IV. Buildings Integral to the Former Life and/or Persecution of Jews in Altona.

2. No. 12-14 Hoheschulstraße (former Bäckerstraße).

  • Synagoge der Altonaer Portugiesisch-Jüdischen Gemeinde Neve Salom 1771-1882 (Altona Portuguese-Jewish Community Synagogue).
  • 1887 Dissolution, Sold to the Hochdeutchen Israeliten Gemeinde (High German Jewish Community).
  • 1887-1940 Winter Synagogue.
  • 1940 Demolished.

  • Mazzotofen der Hochdeutschen Israeliten Gemeinde 1886-1940 (High German Jewish Community Matzohs Bakery), extension to the Synagoge der Altonaer Portugiesisch-Jüdischen Gemeinde Neve Salom 1771-1882 (Altona Portuguese-Jewish Community Synagogue).

Former Altona Portuguese-Jewish Community Synagogue
at no. 12-14 Bäckerstraße (today Hoheschulstrasse).

In 1770 the number of Portuguese Jews in Altona had grown from 5 to 18 families. They petitioned King Christian VII of Denmark to be allowed to build a synagogue. He granted them this right on the 22nd March 1771. Above the entrance was inscribed:
Heilige Gemeinde Newe Schalom im Jahre 5531
Sacred Community Neve Shalom (Place of Peace), 1771
Above this was the monogram of Christian VII with crown in relief, which today is exhibited in the Altona Museum.

Entrance to the former Altona Portuguese-Jewish Community Synagogue, with monogram and crown in relief
at no. 12-14 Bäckerstraße (today Hoheschulstraße).

Donations from members of the Portuguese Jewish communities in London and Amsterdam helped finance the building of the synagogue. It was inaugurated on the 6th September 1771. The building was renovated in 1859 with very little being altered to the late baroque interior. It was closed in 1882 with the extinction of the Portuguese Jewish community. Five years later the Altona High German Israelite Community (Hochdeutsch-Israelitische Gemeinde) took it over as a "winter synagogue". The smaller building was easier to heat in winter than the main synagogue in Papagoyenstraße. The small, elegant half-timbered building with plaster facade was situated in the rear courtyard of no. 12-14 Bäckerstraße (today Hoheschulstraße). It was reached via an archway.

In 1886 a Matzohs Bakery was built as an extension to the synagogue for the Altona High German Jewish Community.
In 1940 the building and the anterior land was compulsorily sold by the private joint heirs Alexander Julius Möller to the city of Hamburg and then demolished, it being delapidated and there being no interest in the preservation of historical monuments at that time.