Dornum is home to the
Lutheran St. Bartholomaeus Church. This church contains an organ built by Gerhard von Holy. The organ is now considered a national treasure. Dornum also houses the only surviving synagogue building in
East Frisia. The synagogue was deconsecrated and sold on 7 November 1938 for 600
Reichsmarks to the neighboring master carpenter August Tessmer, who subsequently used it as a storeroom. Nevertheless, on
Kristallnacht, the windows of the building were smashed in, and the remaining furnishings were taken out of the building and burned on the market square.
Sturmabteilung troops arrested all the Jewish residents of the town that night and deported them to neighboring
Norden, where other Jews from the district were also rounded up. The elderly, women, and children were released on the morning of 10 November; the men were deported to
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, from which they only returned weeks later. In the period that followed, the last Jews tried, as far as they were able, to leave Dornum or Germany. On 13 September 1939, 8 Jewish fellow citizens were still living in Dornum. The receiving terminal for gas through
Europipe I and
II lies at Dornum. From here, gas is transported through a 48-kilometer-long pipeline to
Emden for quality and volume metering. From here the gas is routed to customers’ gas grids. The
Czech Republic and
Austria receive gas through Europipe II at Dornum. The Czechs take over the gas here for onward transport via the German St Katerina gas grid, at the
German-Czech border. Austria takes over the gas at the
German-Austrian border at
Oberkappel. ==Notable residents==