Tracking Jewish History in Southern Germany
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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)