Seesen · Culture
Jacobson-Haus Seesen as a 3D tour
The boarding house of 1889 is the last surviving part of the Jacobson School, where Israel Jacobson built the first synagogue of Reform Judaism in 1810.
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The Jacobson-Haus in Seesen is the last surviving building of the Jacobson School: it was completed in 1889 as the Alumnat, the boarding house where pupils lived, slept and ate. Israel Jacobson (1768–1828), court agent and regional rabbi in the Duchy of Brunswick, had founded the school in 1801 as a free Jewish school that soon admitted Christian pupils as well. A 3D tour lets you explore the house virtually.
In 1810 Jacobson had the Jacobstempel built in the schoolyard — the first synagogue of Reform Judaism, with an organ, a choir and sermons in German. The temple was destroyed in the November Pogrom of 1938; its site is marked in the paving of Jacobsonplatz, the former schoolyard. A memorial threshold at the entrance commemorates more than 260 former Jewish pupils who became victims of the Shoah.
When the rest of the school complex was demolished in 1975, only the Alumnat remained. Since a restoration completed in 2024, the listed building with its brick and sandstone façade has served as a community and cultural centre, home to the town library and a public hall.
