Mikvah (Offenburg)

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The mikvah in Offenburg, a town in the west of Baden-Württemberg, was probably built in the 16th/17th century. The mikvah under the house Glaserstraße 8 is a protected cultural monument. It remained closed to the public until the 1970s.

Medieval Jewish Court (Speyer) and Museum SchPIRA

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The Judenhof Speyer was the central district of the medieval Jewish quarter of Speyer and was probably founded in 1090 by privileges of Emperor Hainrich IV. It consisted of the ritual and communal buildings of the medieval communal center. Thus, it was the second Jewish quarter of Speyer, a first Siendlungsbezirk was located in the suburb of Altspeyer, where the Jewish cemetery continued to be located. The Judenhof consisted of the synagogue (ca. 1100), the women's school (ca. 1250), the oldest preserved mikvah in Central Europe (ca.

Synagogue (Wörlitz)

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The synagogue in Wörlitz, a district of the town of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, was built in 1789/90. The profaned synagogue is located on the eastern edge of the palace garden on an artificial hill and is a monument as part of the Wörlitz Park.

Mikvah (Busenberg)

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The mikvah in the Rhineland-Palatinate local community of Busenberg (district of Southwest Palatinate) was a house that once housed a ritual immersion bath for Jews. After becoming private property, the building was converted into a small residential house and was the only remaining former mikveh house in the Palatinate until 2017.[1][2] As it had become dilapidated due to lack of maintenance and was not listed as a historic monument, it was demolished in October 2017.[3]
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