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The mikvah, a component of the Jewish ghetto in the medieval Lorenzer old town, is preserved to this day and lies about nine meters below the sidewalk.

Jews lived in Hagen according to written documents since the beginning of the 18th century. They did not have a religious center, but prayed in various private houses until the year 1819, where, among other things, a synagogue and a school were housed in an older half-timbered building.

It was not until 1859 that the Jewish community of Hagen was able to inaugurate its new synagogue in Potthofstraße. Forty years later, the house of worship was rebuilt and rededicated.

The Jewish community Duisburg-Mülheim exists since 1955. The double community joined in 1968 also the Jewish religious community Oberhausen. Today, the congregation consists of about 2,800 members. Many of them come from the successor states of the former Soviet Union. In 1999, the community center was inaugurated on the inner harbor of Duisburg, which was to replace the former community center in Mülheim. 

The Old Synagogue in Bonn was built in 1878/79 on the Judengasse (until 1886, later Tempelstraße), which had been laid out from 1715.
On November 10, 1938, the synagogue and the community hall were set on fire, and the following year they were destroyed and demolished.

The property  passed from the Jewish community to the ownership of the city of Bonn in June 1939. A day care center was built on the property, which was demolished after the end of World War II. The site was used as a parking lot.

Already in the Middle Ages Jews settled in Rostock. For lack of sources can not be said whether it already at that time the community had a synagogue.

In 1856 the house belonging to the widow of Legationsrat Reuß Hospitalstrasse 36 together with the associated garden was up for sale. The Jewish wine merchant Heinrich Hirsch initially wanted to purchase the property. When he heard of the Jewish community's wish to build a synagogue on this property, he withdrew from the purchase in favor of the community. Of the four building plans submitted the one by Baurat Gustav Breymann was selected.

Already in the Middle Ages was a synagogue: This is the still preserved building of the Rathofkapelle in the Rathofstraße. This building was sold to the Eberbach Monastery (in the Rheingau) in 1394. Due to the rededication and renaming by the monastery, the original use of the building was completely forgotten.  
  

The synagogue in Landshut was one of the necessary facilities of the small Jewish community in Landshut. The synagogue as well as the mikvah (the ritual immersion bath) adjoined the residential houses of the Jews, which were located on the Hofberg. From 1450 the situation of the Jews in the town worsened until their expulsion. The synagogue became a Christian property and was transformed into the Salvator Church. The square where the synagogue stood was from then on called Trinity Square.

According to a report from 1817, the Jews living in Beaumarais attended the synagogue in Wallerfangen, which was apparently not unproblematic, since in that year there was a dispute between the Jews living in Beaumarais and Wallerfangen. Presumably, the Jewish families in Beaumarais already wanted to break away from Wallerfangen at that time and have their own prayer hall. However, this did not happen until the middle of the 19th century. Between 1844 and 1850 a synagogue could be built at the Muhlenstraße.

In 1932, the East Jewish Cultural Association inaugurated the new prayer hall in Rheindorfer Straße. Nothing is known about its further use.