Description
Germany, Cologne Synagogue, Copper Medal (60mm/88.47gm) 1861 by Jacques Wiener. The exterior façade. Rev, the interior, with legend in Hebrew to either side (Reinecke 61). Much as struck and very rare.
The Synagogue was designed by the architect Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (1802-1861), who had worked since 1833 on the restoration of Cologne Cathedral, and it was to be his last work. It was destroyed during the Third Reich.