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Cologne Museum to Be Built for Jewish Community
14-Jun-2008
Written by: Marie J. Pellegrino
A new Cologne Museum will display artifacts showing ties to its Jewish community.
Cologne, Germany, will be the new site of a museum that dedicates parts of itself to the city’s Jewish community.
The Jewish community within the city dates back 1,700 years and is said to have been the most Jewish-populated city north of the Alps since 321 when Constantine was the Emperor of the Roman Empire. The museum also wishes that the displays will revive the Jewish community.
German architects, Wandel Hoefer Lorch and Hirsch, were chosen to design the new museum, which is supposed to be completed in 2010. These architects also designed an award-winning synagogue in Dresden and a Jewish Center in Munich. The concept for the museum is meant to combine remaining artifacts and modern day; some of the artifacts will be a synagogue and a “mikwe,” or Jewish ritual bath house.
The Jewish community in Cologne, which amounts to 5,000 Jews is supporting the construction of the new museum, but wants there to be a place for more relevance in their lives, such as a place to gather or to worship.
While the museum will not be as big as Berlin’s Jewish Museum, the people hope and believe that the museum will be a landmark in Germany and possibly even Europe.
Source: Reuters
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