Roonstrasse Synagogue: what Wikipedia removed
Roonstrasse Synagogue in Cologne is the only one of the city’s five pre-Nazi-era synagogues still standing. Through 2020 the opening read, in part, there, he condemned nazism and antisemitism. Today’s opening covers only the synagogue’s location and survival, with that sentence gone, though antisemitism survives three times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that a documented visit to the synagogue included a condemnation of Nazism and antisemitism.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The opening sentence was reworded without loss of a distinct fact, just restructured phrasing.
- A passage describing a visitor’s condemnation of Nazism and antisemitism at the synagogue was dropped from the opening paragraph.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 345000120):
Roonstrasse Synagogue , located in Cologne , Germany , is one of the five pre- Nazi synagogues of the locality, which was destroyed on November 9, 1938 during nation-wide attacks on Jewish interests ( Kristallnacht ) when Germany was under Nazi rule . The synagogue was subsequently rebuilt during the 1950s . It is currently a center of Jewish community of Cologne, and consists of a community center , a small display of items associated with Cologne Jewry, and a kosher restaurant . The interior of the reconstructed synagogue has a vast blue dome . On August 19, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI visited Roonstrasse Synagogue. This visit was the second ever visit to any synagogue by any one of the Popes …
2025 (revision 1267626146):
Orthodox synagogue in Cologne, Germany Roonstrasse Synagogue ( German : Synagoge Roonstraße ) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue , located at 50 Roonstraße in Cologne , Germany . The synagogue is the only surviving of the five synagogues of Cologne before the Nazi era. ^ “Synagogue at 50 Roonstraße in Köln” . Historic synagogs of Europe . Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . n.d . Retrieved June 22, 2024 .
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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