Genealogy and research recordsRB-EXT-PD-0005

Chandeliers and galleries filled Halberstadt’s synagogue

This museum scan records the sanctuary, its galleries, chandeliers and octagonal bimah before 1938. An unidentified photographer stood inside the room and preserved its arrangement. The photograph shows the architecture, but it does not identify the worshippers who used it.

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Archive reference
RB-EXT-PD-0005
Date
Photographed c. 1920
Digital image
1800 × 1172 pixels
Evidence status
Historical context image
Source and provenance
Städtisches Museum Halberstadt photograph f0372a, published in high resolution by Jüdisches Halberstadt on its DenkOrt page; the same historical image is published as public domain on Wikimedia Commons.
Credit
Photographer unknown / Städtisches Museum Halberstadt, f0372a / Jüdisches Halberstadt
Rights
Underlying historical photograph marked public domain on Wikimedia Commons; museum source attribution retained
Image treatment
Clean museum JPEG reduced to 2,200 pixels on its longest edge for web access. No crop, restoration or generative alteration.

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Reichenbach Family Archive. “Chandeliers and galleries filled Halberstadt’s synagogue.” Photographed c. 1920. RB-EXT-PD-0005. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-ext-pd-0005.

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