Association for Jewish History Gailingen e.V.

In September 1657 the rulers issued for the first time a letter of protection to the six Jews*Jewesses who had settled in Gailingen around 1654. In 1722, 18 Jewish households were already registered. At the peak of its demographic development, the Jewish share of the population in the village was just over half. In 1933 there were just 314 Jewish Gailinger*innen (20%). From 1870-1884 Gailingen had a Jewish mayor, Hirsch Leopold Guggenheim. From 1827 to 1925 Gailingen was the seat of a district rabbi. A memorial square commemorates the destruction of the synagogue on November 10, 1938 and the Jewish Gailinger*s deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940. The Jewish schoolhouse built in 1845-47 - with a rabbi's and teacher's apartment upstairs and a Jewish ritual bath in the basement - has been preserved. The ''Jewish Museum Gailingen'' was established in the rooms from 2009 to 2014 (various rooms with different focuses on Jewish history in Gailingen and the Hegau region).