Jerusalem on the Elbe - Cologne Synagogue and Jewish cemeteries

The Cologne Synagogue is one of the oldest and most valuable monuments of its kind in Bohemia.
In the past, house No. 126 was one of the most important buildings of the Cologne ghetto, as it served as a Jewish school from 1654. Its original medieval core consists of the visually different left (southern) part, which is decorated with a late Baroque facade from the second half of the 18th century. After 1782, the original school building began to be…