Goor

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Goor

| settlement_type = City

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| image_skyline = Goor, sculptuur van de geschiedenis van Goor IMG 5853 2020-05-31 18.15.jpg

| caption = Sculpture: the history of Goor

| image_shield = Goor wapen.svg

| image_flag = Goor vlag.svg

| pushpin_map = Netherlands Overijssel#Netherlands

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in province of Overijssel in the Netherlands

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Netherlands

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Overijssel

| subdivision_type2 = Municipality

| subdivision_name2 = Hof van Twente

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| elevation_footnotes = {{cite web |url = http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool |title = Postcodetool for 7471AA |language = nl |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis |access-date = 16 March 2022 }}

| elevation_m = 12

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| area_total_km2 = 19.49

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| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.nl/-/media/_excel/2021/48/kwb-2021.xls |title=Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021 |website=Central Bureau of Statistics |access-date=16 March 2022|quote=Two entries}}

| population_total = 12,155

| population_as_of = 2021

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| population_density_km2 = auto

| population_density_urban_km2 = auto

| timezone = CET

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| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 7471

| area_code_type = Dialing code

| area_code = 0547

| coordinates = {{coord|52|13|56|N|6|35|12|E|region:NL|display=inline}}

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Goor ({{IPA|nl|ɣoːr|pron}}) is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located about {{Convert|20|km|mi}} west of Enschede. Goor received city rights in 1263.

Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became part of Hof van Twente.{{Repertorium Nederlandse Gemeenten}} Goor had a statue of Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, but it was destroyed in 1787 by royalist Orangists in the defeat of the republican movement.

Jewish community

While records of individual Jews in Goor date back to the 14th century, the first permanent records of a Jewish community date to the 1600s when residence permits were issued to Jews.{{Cite web |title=Jewish Communities: Goor |url=https://jck.nl/en/page/goor |website=Jewish Cultural Quarter |language=en-us}}

The {{ill|Joodse begraafplaats|nl}} ('Jewish cemetery') of Goor on the Borghoek dates to 1720.Goorsnieuws.nl d.d. 24 september 2009 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927054520/http://www.goorsnieuws.nl/index.php/commentaar/34-algemeen/993-t-is-een-vreemdeling-zeker 't is een vreemdeling zeker,.....] The Jewish population expanded rapidly in the second half of the 18th century. In 1748, Goor had 13 Jewish residents; that number increased to 238 Jews by 1809. In 1821, the Jews of Goor joined with Jews living in the neighboring towns of Diepenheim and Markelo to build the Ringsynagoge ('regional synagogue').{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

The Jewish community thrived throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Jews contributed to the economic development of Goor and the Twente region. The Jewish Lavino brothers set up a weaving school in Goor.“Jewish Communities:Goor,Joods Cultureel Kwartier”, https://jck.nl/en/page/goor Godfried Salomonson (1838–1911), a Jewish man, established the "Koninklijke Stoomweverij te Nijverdal" ('the Royal Nijverdal Steam Bleaching Works')Nijverdal means "industrious valley" in Dutch. in 1836 with the express purpose of serving as the center of the Dutch Industrial Revolution.“Godftied Salomomson,” ‘Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland:1880–2000’, http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/salomonson In 1902, a new synagogue on Schoolstraat replaced the old Ringsynagoge.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

As antisemitism gripped Nazi Germany in the late 1920s, Goor (like the rest of the Netherlands) saw an influx of Jewish refugees. The Nazis occupied the Netherlands in 1940. On March 24, 1945, Allied bombers hit and damaged the Goor Synagogue which had survived the Nazi occupation as a storehouse. During the war, nearly the entire Jewish community had been openly murdered or sent to concentration camps where they were killed.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

In 1970, the Dutch government erected a national monument in the Joodse gemeenschap, memorializing the Jews whom the Nazis murdered.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}