Sunday, 8th of June 2025, 3pm to 5pm, Open Synagogue

 Foto: © Kurt-Willi Julius

The synagogue is open to visitors from 3pm to 5pm. A guided tour of the building begins at 3pm. You are also welcome to explore the prayer room and our small museum on your own.

Sunday, 21st of September 2025, 15 Uhr, Literaturcafé 

Tuesday, 8th of April 2025, 7pm, Cinema on Tuesdays

Grafik mohamed Hassan auf Pixabay

This time, the Förderkreis is showing the 2023 film by director Christopher Zalla, which is based on a true story. For licensing reasons, the title cannot be used in advertising.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Tuesday, 10th of June 2025, 19 Uhr, Cinema on Tuesdays

Grafik mohamed Hassan auf Pixabay

Thursday, 3rd of April 2025, 4.30 pm, Book presentation: 'Let the world be witness'

 Foto: UNI Regensburg

Author reading and discussion with Prof. Dr. S. Koller

It was a world that will never rise again – the world of the Jewish shtetl. Until the Nazi era, more than four-fifths of all Jews in Europe lived in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and neighbouring areas.

The shtetls went up in flames, countless massacres were committed, millions of Jews were murdered. The writer Dovid Bergelson, who came from the shtetl of Ochrimovo in northern Ukraine and wrote in Yiddish, survived this period in the Soviet Union.

With a new edition of his stories entitled ‘Die Welt möge Zeuge sein’ (Let the world be witness), Sabine Koller, professor of Slavic-Jewish studies in Regensburg, now makes it possible once again to listen to the lost world of Eastern European Jewry and the Yiddish language. The village synagogue in Vöhl, restored by a citizens' initiative and converted into a cultural centre, provides the perfect setting for this.  

Moderation: Klaus Brill

 

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13th of July to 17th of August 2025, Art Exhibition ´Künstlergruppe artur´

Grafiken: artur - die Korbacher Künstlergruppe

The Exhibition of: ´artur - die Korbacher Künstlergruppe´  is open during opening hours

The group of artists has been around for many years and continues to enrich the Korbach art scene with their ideas. Now they are exhibiting in the synagogue on the subject of ‘War and Peace’.

   

Holiday-Job Landkulturboten 2025

Landkulturboten in 2019

The Förderkreis Synagoge Vöhl e.V. is looking for six school pupils for a two-week holiday job during the 2025 summer holidays. Are you at least 15 years old and attending secondary school, or at least 17 years old and attending grammar school or vocational school in Vöhl or a neighbouring municipality, and looking for an exciting job for the summer holidays? Are you a team player, enjoy working with people and interested in your region? Would you like to contribute your skills to a dedicated team? Are you interested in training for project and oral exams as well as job interviews?

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In 2025, the project will be funded by the Waldeck-Frankenberg Network for Tolerance, which receives funding from the federal programme ‘Demokratie leben’ (Living Democracy) and the Hesse programme ‘Aktiv für Demokratie und gegen Extremismus’ (Active for Democracy and Against Extremism).

Friday, 18th of July 2025, 2pm, Visit from Dr D. Sommer, MdL

Photo:Götz Schleser

Dr. Daniela Sommers summer-tour 2025

Under the motto ‘DenkMal - Natur- und Kulturdenkmale’, the member of the state parliament of hesse will visit places and initiatives that inspire people to (re)think and will make a stop at the Vöhl synagogue.
She wants to take visitors on a tour of the building, find out about the work of the support organisation and also visit the Jewish cemetery. The afternoon will end on a cheerful note in the synagogue courtyard.

Wednesday, 27th of August 2025, 7pm, Book Presentation  `Die Zeit davor und danach´ 

Foto: Kurt-Willi Julius

On the (pre-)Easter days of 1945 - 80 years ago - the Second World War came to an end for the communities of today's Waldeck-Frankenberg district. The war had been associated with death and destruction, hardship and misery. Some history buffs and Jewish descendants from our region would like to commemorate these days with a book.

   

Tuesday, 13th of May 2025, 7pm, Cinema on Tuesdays

Grafik mohamed Hassan auf Pixabay

Sunday, 14th of December 2025, 3pm to 5pm, Open Synagogue

 Foto: © Kurt-Willi Julius

The synagogue is open to visitors from 3pm to 5pm. A guided tour of the building begins at 3pm. You are also welcome to explore the prayer room and our small museum on your own.

Sunday, 20th of July 2025, 3pm to 5pm, Open Synagogue

 Foto: © Kurt-Willi Julius

The synagogue is open to visitors from 3pm to 5pm. A guided tour of the building begins at 3pm. You are also welcome to explore the prayer room and our small museum on your own.

Sunday, 18th of May 2025, 3pm, Photo presentation: 'The World of the Sikhs'

Photo: U. Müller, in front of the golden temple in Amritsar, India

Lecture from Ulrich Müller

Ulrich Müller has made several trips to India. His lecture focuses on a population group in India, the Sikhs. They have their own religion, Sikhismus. With his photos, he introduces the world of the Sikhs.

Admission free – donations welcome

Saturday, 1st of November 2025, 7pm, Synagogenkonzert, Ch. Backhaus + A. Todorova

 Foto: Sonja Zierow

Song cycle "Schwanengesang" from Franz Schubert

 

   

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Sunday, 11th of May 2025, 3pm to 5pm, Open Synagogue

 Foto: © Kurt-Willi Julius

The synagogue is open to visitors from 3pm to 5pm. A guided tour of the building begins at 3pm. You are also welcome to explore the prayer room and our small museum on your own.

2025-7-7 to 2025-8-15, weekdays, 8am-12am + 1pm-5pm, , Open Synagogue

Tristan Kröhnert, Jan-Philipp Eisenberg

Ida Formella, Stella Heyne

Sarah Müller, Anastasiya Subbotina

During the summer holidays, 6 pupils are working in the synagogue as rural culture messengers.  Two of them will ensure that the synagogue is open from Monday to Friday from 8am to 12pm and from 1pm to 5pm. They offer well-prepared guided tours and look forward to your visit.

 This year, the project is being financed by the  Netzwerk für Toleranz Waldeck-Frankenberg,  which receives funding from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs' ‘Live Democracy’ programme and the Hessian ‘Active for Democracy and against Extremism’ programme.

Sunday, 14th of September 2025, 4pm, Lecture on the `Nuremberg Laws´ in the year 1935

Sunday, 13th of July 2025, 3pm, Walk on the Traces of Vöhler Jews

   Foto: Privat

Guided Tour by Karl-Heinz Stadtler

nyone who walks through Vöhl with their eyes open will still find traces of Jewish life. Names like those of Abraham Katzenstein and Selig Frankenthal have been carved into the door of an old blacksmith's shop alongside those of Christian farmers; there's the inscription in Hebrew characters above the door of a house that belonged to the Schaumburg merchant family in the 19th century; and, of course, there's the Jewish cemetery in Herzingsgrube and the former synagogue.

There is no fee. Donations are gratefully accepted.

 Foto: Ulrich Müller

Versal: Picture from OpenClipart-Vectors auf Pixabay

Sunday, 12th of October 2025, 3pm, Walk on the Traces of Vöhler Jews

   Foto: Privat

Guided tour by Karl-Heinz Stadtler

nyone who walks through Vöhl with their eyes open will still find traces of Jewish life. Names like those of Abraham Katzenstein and Selig Frankenthal have been carved into the door of an old blacksmith's shop alongside those of Christian farmers; there's the inscription in Hebrew characters above the door of a house that belonged to the Schaumburg merchant family in the 19th century; and, of course, there's the Jewish cemetery in Herzingsgrube and the former synagogue.

There is no fee. Donations are gratefully accepted.

 Foto: Ulrich Müller

Or you can take a tour yourself and access further information via QR codes on the buildings.

Versal: Bild von OpenClipart-Vectors auf Pixabay

Friday, 13th of June 2025, 7pm, Synagogenkonzert, Sedaa

 Foto: Sedaa

"Mongolei meets Orient"

 

   

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