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In the same century, as was one in Worms, jewish community, it was establishing its first synagogue. Fanatical participant in the Crusades damaged or destroyed the synagogue, so that it had to be built completely new1174/1175 already. 


This building remained, despite repeated destruction essentially same until 1938. These Worms synagogue, originally built by the Worms Dombauschule was, at that time as a model for the construction of other Romanesque synagogues. Thus, the same Dombauschule probably built the synagogue in Speyer with the corresponding women's bath, which was like the Worms.
The Worms synagogue or school of 1174/1175 was a jewel of architecture. The two capitals in the vaults of the interior were the most beautiful and most of their time well beyond of Worms.
The columns exhibit the typical Worms Dombauschule palmetto strip pattern. 

The women's synagogue was added on the north side of the synagogue and men connected with this through a little door and five windows. Although in traditional Judaism the woman's participation in the culture was exempt, even if it was not denied, it was held by the Jews early on in Rhineland-deutchschen a special respect for the woman who gave her at least indirectly share in the worship life. This synagogue was built in 1212/13.

Courtyard on the imaged synagogues played out during the approximately six hundred years from the existing ghettos, a large part of the Jewish. In the Rashi chapel, which in the 17th Century has been grown in the synagogue, will have been long been the school for children. Later this chapel served as a museum for the municipality of biggest son called Rashi (1040-1105), who here led a Talmudic school and wrote the most famous commentary on the Bible.

Though often destroyed, yet each time the synagogue in the same style, was rebuilt. The onset of emancipation of the Jews meant that 1812 were made ​​in the interior of the synagogue underwent strong alterations. Thus the Jewish perceived as typical bimah was demolished, so that the space was modeled accordingly. 1877 was the installation of an organ.