Engelgasse 14
92360 Sulzbürg
Germany
Until the 18th century there is little information about prayer rooms/synagogues. However, in the second half of the 17th century there is said to have been a synagogue (or at least a prayer room) in the village. According to a tradition it was built in 1677. The drawing of the wedding stone with this year is still known. Another source mentions the year 1706 for a synagogue building. This was an addition to one of the "Jews' houses", which was demolished in 1942, or a prayer house on the same property as the later synagogue of 1799.
In the November pogrom of 1938, the entire inventory of the synagogue and the rituals were destroyed. About 12 Torah scrolls were smashed with hatchets, the synagogue building was damaged. The arrested men, with only older ones, were sent home by the police after a short time. One member of the congregation, who was threatened with being hung in the synagogue with a Torah pennant around his neck, was brutally beaten, arrested and taken to Dachau concentration camp.
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