Tracking Jewish History in Southern Germany

Along the Rhine Valley up to Lake Constance (Bodensee)

Dr. Joachim Hahn – Alemannia Judaica

State of Baden-Wuerttemberg – marked in colour

Some towns and villages with Jewish History

Jewish communities in Baden-Wuerttemberg and surrounding (2013)

Visiting a former Synagogue in a village (2012):Dr. Joachim Hahn and Rabbi Shaul Friberg

(Heidelberg)

„Erinnerungen und Zeugnisse jüdischerGeschichte in Baden-Württemberg“

(1988)

„Synagogen in Baden-Wuerttemberg“ (1987)

Some towns and villages with Jewish History

Hemsbach:

Rothschild-Palais, since 1925 town hall of Hemsbach

Carl Mayer von Rothschild(1788 – 1855)

Hemsbach: Jewish Cemetery

Hemsbach: former Synagogue

Hemsbach: former Mikwe and „Stolpersteine“

Weinheim: medieval „Judengasse“

Weinheim: Synagogue of 1906 – destroyed in 1938

Mannheim: Main Synagogue from 1855 - destroyed in 1938

Today‘s memorial plaque

Mannheim

New Synagogue -inaugurated in 1987

Mannheim: old Jewish cemetery - destroyed in 1938

1925

2010

Mannheim: new Jewish Cemetery1840 – today

Heidelberg – Synagogue of 1878Destroyed in 1938

Heidelberg: site of the former synagogue with memorial plaques

Heidelberg: new Synagogue, inaugurated in 1994

Heidelberg: new Synagogue, inaugurated in 1994

Heidelberg: old Jewish cemetery Klingenteichstrasse

Heidelberg: Jewish Cemetery Bergstrasse

(Bergfriedhof)

Leimen: former palais of Aron Seligmann (built in 1792), since 1985 townhall

Some towns and villages with Jewish History

Waibstadt – cemetery and Weil Mausoleum

Walldorf: former synagogue

Wiesloch: Jewish cemetery

Gondelsheim: former synagogue

Bad Mingolsheim: former synagogue

Bruchsal: memorial plaque for the destroyed synagogue

Heidelsheim: „Judengasse“

Bruchsal area

Karlsruhe Main synagogue built in 1873-1875destroyed in 1938

Today‘s memorial

Karlsruhe Synagogue and community center(inaugurated 1971)

Fotos from the inauguration of a new Sefer Torah in May 2013

KarlsruheJewish cemetery Kriegsstrassewith stones from the cemetery Mendelssohnplatz (leveled in 1898)

Karlsruhe: Jewish Cemetery Neu- und Haidstrasse

Orthodox cemetery

Some towns and villages with Jewish History

Kuppenheim Jewish cemetery

Baden-BadenSynagoge built in 1897-1898destroyed 1938

Memorial marks

Baden-BadenToday‘s Synagogue

Offenburg: Old Mikwe

Former Synagogue („Salmen“; 1875-1938)

Kippenheim

Kippenheim: former synagogue

Schmieheim: Jewish Cemetery

Schmieheim: former Synagogue

Some towns and villages with Jewish History

Emmendingen: new Synagogue

Emmendingen:

Old Synagogue, 1938 destroyed

Old cemetery

Freiburg: new Synagogueinaugurated in 1987

Freiburg Jewish cemeteries:

Old Cemetery 1869 - today

New Cemetery since 2012

Eichstetten Synagogue built in 1829-30Destroyed in 1938

Ihringen: „Synagogenplatz“ with memorial

Former jewish teachers houseand building of the mikwe

Ihringen: Jewish cemetery

Breisach: „Synagogenplatz“ with plaque

„Blaues Haus“ (former Jewish community house)

Breisach – new Jewish cemetery (since 1850)

Muellheim: Jewish cemeterywith stones from the synagogue

Sulzburg

Former Synagogue

Sulzburg – Jewish cemetery

Loerrach: Old and new Jewish cemetery

Loerrach: New synagogueand community centre –inaugurated in 2008

Some towns and villages with Jewish History

(Waldshut)-Tiengen Jewish Cemetery – destroyed 1938

Randegg

Jewish Cemetery

Gailingen Leopold Guggenheim – mayor of Gailingen (1870-1884)

Former Jewish Senior Citizen Home „Friedrichsheim“

Former Jewish Hospital

Gailingen – Jewish Cemetery

Gailingen – former Jewish school and Rabbinat - today Jewish museum

Überlingen Jewish gravestones

Oldest Stone from 1275

Constance - Konstanz

„Judentum“ (Jew Tower“)from the 13th century

Constance - Konstanz

Synagogue built in 1883- destroyed in 1938

Konstanz – Constance Jewish Cemetery

Constance - KonstanzSynagogue (prayer room)

New Mikwe (opened in 2009)