Nikolauskapelle
Austria
The name on the listing is the first thing to question. For decades this small Gothic building in Bruck an der Leitha was taken to be the Nikolauskapelle, a Christian chapel, and it was under that identity that it was placed under monument protection in December 1938, after the Anschluss, described as an ecclesiastical building of outstanding art-historical value with a Gothic ribbed vault inside. It is now thought to be something else entirely: a medieval synagogue, estimated at around 700 years old and counted among the best-preserved of its kind in Central Europe.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Synagoge Bruck an der Leitha (de.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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