{"id":280,"date":"2024-08-19T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/?p=280"},"modified":"2024-08-19T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:18:52","slug":"the-synagogue-of-koszeg-a-jewel-that-has-to-be-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/the-synagogue-of-koszeg-a-jewel-that-has-to-be-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"The K\u00f6szeg Synagogue: A Jewel that must be seen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If one knows baroque Catholic Churches or just buildings from the baroque period, this is the place to go. From the outside you won\u2018t get the impression what to expect: a real baroque jewel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The synagogue has been renovated recently and this work is really impressive. It shows what is possible even if it looks everything but encouraging. What has been done here is really encouraging. Thanks for all this hard work! It was worth it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drawing the outside view of the synagogue. Only if you look closely you can imagine: the inside must be somehow round.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The inside is really something special: mural colouring in baroque style giving the impression of a fancy design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Difficult to show this place on paper and camera. Go see for yourself!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The beauty can be seen better from the women gallery . The stairs are from outside accessible. beautiful wooden stairs have been recreated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The round ceiling which shapes the roundness of the whole place <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The founder of the synagogue is visible at the ceiling painting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maybe an image of mount Sinai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maybe an image of the temple <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Womens gallery <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the little museum there are more ideas to visit other synagogues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Postcards showing Synagogues in Apostag, Tokaj, M\u00e1d, Budapest, Szeged, Zalaegerszeg, K\u00f6szeg and Szombathely <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If one knows baroque Catholic Churches or just buildings from the baroque period, this is the place to go. From the outside you won\u2018t get the impression what to expect: a real baroque jewel. The synagogue has been renovated recently and this work is really impressive. It shows what is possible even if it looks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4,9],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-10","tag-former-synagogue","tag-hungary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}