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Because of the relatively high number of Jewish villagers around 1800, it can be assumed that a prayer hall was still established in the 18th century. However, the first mention of a synagogue is available only with a report of the district directorate of the State Administration Commission of 1815. The Herschberg Urkataster of 1844 shows that a synagogue (presumably a newly established building) was bought in 1830 by Sebastian Stahl zu Battwiler for 300 gulden. This building could not have been too small, since it also housed the Jewish school until 1863.

A synagogue ("Judenschule") is mentioned already in 1789. The street where it was located is still called Judengasse today. The synagogue was leased to Lazarus Jacob for residential purposes in 1902 and auctioned off for 1,900 marks in 1907. The rituals and the Torah scrolls were moved to Kusel. The building still stands and is used as a residence. In the neighboring building, the remains of a mikvah were found during renovation work in the 1960s.

In 1805 Jacob Elkan established a synagogue (prayer hall) in his private house. Until his death, the services of the Jewish families in Weimar were held in this private synagogue. Above the decorated entrance door of the building are the intertwined initials "J.E." for Jacob Elkan.

Betraum is said to have been established in a Jewish business house. Information from the association "Politische Memoriale e. V. ".

Little is known about the synagogue in Ludwigslust. Presumably, the Jewish community used a rented room as a prayer hall as early as 1801. The synagogue at Breite Straße 28 was probably built around 1810. The synagogue would have had to be expanded and rebuilt as the congregation grew in number. The building project was delayed for several years, but there is hardly any information about the extent of its realization. Since the community already dissolved in 1924, the synagogue building was sold privately and continued to be used as a residential building.

Since 1799, the Jewish community in Boizenburg had a synagogue in the small Wallstraße. In 1864, the synagogue, which was originally a half-timbered building, was completely rebuilt and received a new brick facade. The consecration of the synagogue took place on October 1, 1864. The synagogue was sold as early as 1892 due to the decline in the number of congregation members. In 1934, the city took over the house and used it as a local museum until the 1980s.

The so-called Klaussynagoge was founded around 1700 [in older accounts usually the year 1703 is mentioned] by the Halberstadt court factor Berend Lehmann (1681-1730) as a Jewish study and teaching house. The prospective teachers and rabbis were to be released from community service in order to be able to devote themselves entirely to Torah and Talmud study "in seclusion". Previously, Berend Lehmann had already financed the first printing of the Babylonian Talmud in Germany (Frankfurt/Oder) in 1696-99.

First there was a prayer room available. The prayer room mentioned in 1852 in a status report on Jewish worship in the area of the Kirchheim district commissariat had been established "for 62 years already" in the house of Jacob Landsberg (that is since 1790). In 1814 the Jewish community purchased this house for 900 guilders. Over the years the condition of the prayer hall became worse and worse. In 1841 it was said that the building was "demolished", that is, in dilapidated condition. A little later it was demolished. 
 

At the end of the 17th century, the still few Rockenhausen Jews attended the synagogue in Alsenz. In the course of the 18th century, a prayer room may have been established in Rockenhausen. In 1811 Manasse Kahnweiler set up a prayer room on the upper floor of an outbuilding of his house at Luitpoldstr. 20 (formerly building No. 250 in the "Grad Gaß"), which was solemnly inaugurated.  In the 1860s the desire to build a synagogue in Rockenhausen arose. The first plans were drawn up in 1867/68 by the district building officer Rosenthal.

Since the end of the 1850s, there was a prayer room in the restoration of Abraham van der Wall. In 1859, in his advertisements appearing in Jewish periodicals, the remark is found for the first time: "Also a suitable prayer room, provided with a Torah, is prepared."