Jewish community Eberbach

A Jewish community in Eberbach in the Rhine-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg formed in the 19th century, reached its highest membership in 1900 with 138 members, but dwindled due to migration to large cities after World War I and finally became extinct in the course of the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era. In the late 19th century, a converted residential building served as a synagogue, and in 1913 the community built itself a new synagogue, which was destroyed in the Reichspogromnacht of 1938. The Eberbach Jews were originally buried in Hirschhorn before the Jewish cemetery was established in Eberbach in 1891.