Il Giardino della Rimembranza sui ruderi della sinagoga di Marburg in Germania: memoria, identità e riuso. The Garden of Remembrance on the ruins of the Marburg synagogue in Germany: memory, identity and reuse

This contribution proposes a part of the results of the research, in progress, on the "Garden of Remembrance" (Garten des Gedenkes) in Marburg, Germany. The garden is built on the ruins of synagogue that was razed during the Nazism. The garden is the consequence of actions that, in about 150 years, have transformed the area several times. This article will illustrate - therefore - the chronological sequence of trasformation and use of the place: the build of the synagogue in 1897 by Wilhelm Spahr; the destruction during the "Crystal Night" in 1938; the use as a parking by the adjacent University (Landgrafenhaus); the construction of the little garden in 1963 with a memorial by Dieter Waldemar Paffrath; the excavations conducted in 2008 by "Freie Institut für Bauforschung und Dokumentation"; the competion to make of a memory garden in 2009 and, finally, build the "Garden of Remembrance" in 2012 by Rainer Sachse with the collaboration of the artist Oliver Gatherand Christian Ahlborn.