Jewish Community

The Jewish community in Östringen, a town in the district of Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg), was established in the 17th/18th century and existed until April 1, 1937.

The Jewish community in Wertheim existed from the 13th century until 1940.

A Jewish community in Rust, a municipality in the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg, existed from the 17th century.

Since I am not a category expert, please forgive me for asking a silly question: How do former Jewish communities that disappeared by the Holocaust at the latest fit into a county category from the 1980s? Shouldn't the category(ies) rather be called Former Jewish Communities in County xy (i.e. Sinsheim, Heidelberg, ...)? --Badener (discussion)

The Jewish Community Hamburg is one of the largest Jewish communities in Germany with about 3500 members. It forms an independent state association within the nationwide Central Council of Jews in Germany. In addition, there are other Jewish communities of other streams, which have organized themselves here.
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Israelitische Kultusgemeinde is a synonym for the term Jewish community (kehillah). It is used mainly in Austria, but also in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland.

A Jewish community in Adelsheim, a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, already existed in the Middle Ages.

The Jewish community of Bad Buchau existed from 1575/77 until the year 1942 in today's Bad Buchau in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia.

A Jewish community in Biberach (today a district of Heilbronn) existed only temporarily after the Thirty Years' War. The first settlement of Jews after 1650 goes back to the French Major General Thomas von Klug, in whose possession the place was at that time. The expulsion of the Jews was initiated from 1726 by the Teutonic Order as the later local ruler.

The Jewish community in Buttenhausen in the south of Württemberg in the Lauter Valley in the Swabian Alb dates back to the settlement of 25 Jewish families who received a letter of protection from Baron von Liebenstein (1730-1799) in 1787. They enjoyed unusually tolerant and liberal conditions here, following the example of the Jewish community in Jebenhausen. In 1789 a cemetery was built, in 1795 a synagogue was opened.