Synagogue Bahnhofstraße (Hünfeld)

Initially, services were held in prayer rooms of Jewish residential houses. In 1860, the prayer room was in an old house that had fallen into disrepair. In that year a synagogue building was approved, but the community members were so poor that they could not raise the funds for it. In 1868, community elders Israel Weinberg and Heinemann Plaut asked the Prussian king for a financial grant to build the synagogue. A short time later, a synagogue and a community schoolhouse were built. However, both fell victim to a fire on September 28, 1886.

In 1933, 55 Jewish people still lived in Hünfeld (2.0% of 2,773 inhabitants). In the following years, a part of the Jewish community members moved away or emigrated due to the increasing disenfranchisement and the repressive measures that were particularly severe in Hünfeld. The Jewish men still present in the village in November 1938 were deported to the Buchenwand concentration camp after the November pogrom, where 61-year-old Wolf Plaut was murdered on December 12, 1938. In 1939, there were only ten Jewish people left in the village. Nine people were deported from Hünfeld in 1941 and taken to extermination camps.