Jewish Community Worms Heppenheim a. d. Wiese
In Heppenheim an der Wiese Jews could settle probably since the beginning of the 18th century 1722 two Jewish families were in the place, 1743 one family.
Jewish cemetery (Alsheim)
The Jewish cemetery in Alsheim was established only in 1896. Previously (since 1840) the dead of the community were buried in Osthofen . Jewish people who died in Mettenheim and Gimbsheim also found their final resting place in the Alsheim cemetery. The cemetery area covers 6.38 ar.
Israelite elementary school (Alsheim)
The religious school was called Israelitische Volksschule from 1873. In 1881, it had 18 pupils, including two Christian children.
Synagogue Mittelgasse (Alsheim)
A prayer room existed around 1743, when Jacob David had provided a room in his house for worship and prayer and at the same time donated a Torah.
Bauerbach (Grave Field)
In Bauerbach existed a Jewish community until 1938/41. Their emergence goes back to the time of the 17th/18th century . However, the oldest reference to Jews in the place is only a grave inscription of the Bauerbach cemetery from 1722.
In 1782 the Jew Mattich in Bauerbach, whom the poet Friedrich Schiller liked to meet during his stay in Bauerbach, and Jonas Oberländer, whom Schiller rescued from a life-threatening situation, are mentioned by name.
Gerbergasse Synagogue (Hildburghausen)
In 1933, Bankhaus Strupp was nationalized and the Old Synagogue adjacent to the bank building was forcibly demolished.
Synagogue at the western city wall
Until the beginning of the 19th century, a prayer hall or synagogue was present in each case (e.g. mentioned in 1737 in connection with the formula for the Jewish oath). On August 30, 1811 a synagogue could be consecrated at the western city wall. The ducal court factor Levi Simon had given the money for it and initially purchased two plots of land in the area of Untere Marktstraße with the then census numbers 22 and 23. The inauguration took place with the permission of Duke Frederick. The inauguration speech was held by Josef Michael Hirsch.
Old chancellery Bleicherode
First there was a prayer room in each case (already in the 16th century, then again in the 18th century).
Old synagogue Obergebraer Straße / corner Gartenstraße (Bleicherode)
In 1880 the foundation stone for a new synagogue could be laid. The construction was financed by donations (see above report on the death of M. S. Falkenstein). Construction was supervised by Baurat Edwin Oppler from Hanover; he had shortly before built a synagogue in Hameln almost identical to the synagogue in Bleicherode. Master mason Schirmer from Bleicherode carried out the work. On June 1, 1882, the synagogue was consecrated by Professor Heidenheim, a rabbi from Bleicherode. The architecture was essentially characterized by neo-Romanesque forms.