Synagogue Worms-Pfeddersheim

Today's district of Worms has a centuries-long independent tradition, at times as a Free Imperial City, which is still reflected in the townscape.

Jews certainly lived here before 1444, but in 1470 all Jews were expelled from the Electoral Palatinate, thus also from Pfeddersheim. Only with the end of the 30-year war in 1648 there is again concrete information about the presence and activity of Jews. However, a Jewish religious community was not founded until 1834. Until then, Jews oriented themselves either to Worms or to Grünstadt, where they attended the synagogues there.

In 1834, the community acquired a plot of land on which to build its own synagogue. However, many adverse circumstances prevented this for years. Finally, the property was sold again and a new site was acquired, on which the new synagogue building could be realized in 1842. The decline of the Jewish population after the 1st World War led to the fact that the synagogue stood mostly empty and was used only very rarely. It was then sold to a private person during the Nazi period - which meant that it escaped destruction by the Nazis. Today the house is a listed building and can be used for social events.

The few remaining Jews were cruelly persecuted by the Nazis, only a few managed to escape abroad, the rest were murdered in the concentration camps.