Old synagogue Ulm

In 1867 the Jewish community acquired the property of the tanner Eberhard Fromm on the north side of the Weinhof for the price of 32,752 gulden, on which there was a large house with a rear building (properties Weinhof 2 and 3). The new synagogue was built according to the plans of architect and city building council Adolf Wolff from Stuttgart in the Moorish style (at that time also called "strict Byzantine style") as a brick building with tracery in house stones. On September 12/13, 1873 the solemn dedication took place with a festive service and sermon by Rabbi Wälder from Laupheim. On its completion, the synagogue was praised from all sides as a "masterpiece" and as one of the "most beautiful ornaments of the city of Ulm". In the 1920s the "orientalizing" building and especially the shiny gold round domes were perceived as too "foreign" in Ulm's cityscape, both from the Jewish and especially from the non-Jewish side.In 1927, the town mayor's office approached the Jewish community with the suggestion of adapting the synagogue to the uniform architectural character of the Weinhof by means of a reconstruction.

In the pogrom night in November 1938 the synagogue at the Weinhof was set on fire by plainclothes SA men in several places at the same time. The building, which was severely damaged by the fire mainly on the inside, was demolished in the same year. Plans for a Nazi building on the synagogue site were no longer realized, but instead a concrete fire water tank was built for firefighting in the bombing war. 

In 1958 the site was redeveloped with a building of the district savings bank (property Neue Straße 66). A memorial plaque was placed on the side facing the Weinhof. In 1988 a memorial to the former synagogue and the Jewish people deported from Ulm was additionally erected in the Weinhof. In 2012 the Kreissparkasse building was demolished. In 2011/12, the new synagogue was built on a neighboring property at the Weinhof.