Jewish Community

The Jewish community in Laupheim in Upper Swabia was established in 1724 by the settlement of several Jewish families from Illereichen and Buchau. In the middle of the 19th century, it was the largest Jewish community in the then Kingdom of Württemberg. The community became extinct in the course of the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era.

The Jewish Community of Mannheim is a kehillah that has existed in Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg) since the mid-17th century.

A Jewish community in Sennfeld, a district of the town of Adelsheim in the Neckar-Odenwald district (Baden-Württemberg), was demonstrably established in the 18th century.

A Jewish community in Sontheim, today a district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg, existed since the second half of the 17th century. The highest number of members of the Jewish community in 1818 was about 129 people.

The Jewish community in Tübingen existed in the Middle Ages and in the middle of the 19th century until 1939.

The former synagogue was built in Eisleben in 1850 and is a protected cultural monument.

Judaism has a long tradition in Dresden, which dates back in written form to the beginning of the city's history in the 13th century. Since a Jewish merchant roamed the Dresden region as early as the 9th century, it can be assumed that Jews were already living in Dresden when the city was founded in the 12th century.

A Jewish community in Aach, a local community in the district of Trier-Saarburg (Rhineland-Palatinate), existed as early as the Middle Ages.

A Jewish community in Albersweiler, a local municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district of Rhineland-Palatinate, had existed since the 16th century.

The Jewish community in Altenkirchen (Altenkirchen County, Rhineland-Palatinate) probably originated in the 17th century with the settlement of Schutzjuden in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen. The community had its own Jewish cemetery in Altenkirchen and, from 1884, a synagogue with 120 seats. The Jewish community became extinct in the course of the deportation of German Jews during the National Socialist era.