Jewish community Eppingen

A Jewish community in Eppingen is documented as early as the 14th century. A larger community formed after the Thirty Years' War, comprised over 220 people in 1839 and had a synagogue, an Israelite school (1825-1868) and its own Jewish cemetery. The size of the congregation decreased due to emigration and emigration from the second half of the 19th century, the congregation then practically died out during the Holocaust at the time of National Socialism.