Synagogue Kameralamtsgasse (Rottweil)

In 1857 Isaak Petersburger laid the foundation for a new synagogue in Rottweil with 25 gulden in memory of his wife Franziska née Degginger. In the following year, a new Torah scroll and a new Torah shrine could be purchased for 80 gulden. In 1861 the synagogue building association acquired a plot of land with a building at Cameralamtsgasse 6, which was converted for worship purposes in the same year. On the first floor of this building, a prayer room was established. The synagogue building association initially leased the building to the Jewish community for three years (1861-64). The seats in the synagogue were distributed by lot; only in 1865 they were auctioned as hereditary property. In 1865, the Jewish community took over the building for 3,235 guilders. At that time, the Rottweiler community wanted to become independent at the same time. However, the efforts to get out of the status of a filial community to Mühringen were unsuccessful. Some furnishings were renewed by donations. Thus, a blue blanket for the lectern came from the Leopold Wälder family in 1879 and a new Torah scroll in 1888, a new "eternal light" from the Bernheim family in 1879, a new curtain for the Torah shrine from the Bikard family a few years later In September 1882, a harmonium was purchased. In 1894 the electric light was introduced, requiring an expenditure of 208 marks. In 1903 the congregation decided to rent the synagogue places. In 1909 the synagogue received a new heating system.

Even in the 1920s, it was not always easy to gather the necessary ten men for services. It was especially difficult in the summer months, when some families were on vacation. In 1932, no service was celebrated from the end of July to the beginning of September, because head teacher Strassburger was at the spa in Bad Orb and the congregation had not requested a substitute.

During the November pogrom of 1938 the prayer hall was demolished by SA men from Rottweil and Schwenningen. The Torah scrolls, the Torah shrine, the reading desks, blankets, curtains, tables and benches were burned with all other movable objects on the street in front of the synagogue. The memorial plaques with the names of the Rottweiler Jews who died in the First World War are destroyed. The Rottweiler fire department was present, but only made sure that the neighboring houses were not damaged.

After 1945 the building served as a residential and commercial building (first a carpet weaving mill, then a radio store). The prayer hall was restored in 1982 by the City Youth Council. It has been used as a classroom of a driving school before and until the present. There has been a signboard on the building since 1979. In 2003 negotiations were started about the reacquisition of the room by the new Jewish community of Rottweil, which initially did not bring any result.