Fellheim Jewish Community

The Jewish community of Fellheim was a rural Jewish community in Fellheim, Upper Swabia, in the present-day district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, existing from 1670 to 1942. Other larger Jewish communities in the surrounding area existed in Altenstadt (Iller), Bad Buchau, Ichenhausen, Laupheim and Memmingen. It was located in the form of a street village with a synagogue at the southern entrance to the village in Memminger Straße. In 1833, 80 Jewish families lived in Fellheim and made up 70% of the local population. This resulted in two different types of settlements, in the south the Jewish part of Fellheim, from 1670 also called "Judenhausen" [1] and in the northern part the actual rural village with the usual village appearance.