Osijek. Županijska Street
Prior to the Shoah, Osijek (German: Esseg), located in Slavonia in what is now northeastern Croatia, roughly equidistant from Budapest, Sarajevo and Zagreb and less than 20 km west of the Danube/Serbian border, had two synagogues: one on the main high street in the upper town (seen here), designed by Theodor Stern and inaugurated in 1869. A Second synagogue, designed by Wilim Carl Hofbauer, was inaugurated in the lower town in 1903. On 13 April 1941, ethnic Germans living in the city set the synagogue in the upper town alight. The ruin was demolished after the war and an apartment block has taken its place. The synagogue in the lowertown survived the Second World War and, since 1950, has been in use as a Pentecostal church. As the sender of the postcard helpfully points out, not only was the synagogue in the upper town located just across from a church which, at the end of the nineteenth century, was replaced by the imposing neo-Gothic Roman Catholic Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, it was also just down the road from the Croatian National Theatre which opened in 1866.
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