Jewish Community

The majority of Detmold's Christians belong to the Reformed Church, which has merged with the Evangelical Lutheran Church to form the Lippische Landeskirche. Detmold also had a Jewish community for centuries, but it was forcibly dissolved shortly before the beginning of World War II. The first organized Islamic community in Detmold was founded in 1996.

The Jewish community of Enniger existed since about 1848.
In 1870 it was able to inaugurate its own synagogue, which was used until 1889 together with the community of Sendenhorst. After that, the communities merged into the Jewish community of Drensteinfurt.

The Jewish community of Beckum existed from the 17th century until its extermination by the Nazi persecution of the Jews in 1942, reaching its highest membership in 1925 with 111.

The Jewish community of Hagen was founded in 1819. It is a member of the State Association of Jewish Communities of Westphalia-Lippe.

Hallenberg is a country town in the Rothaargebirge mountains and belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). It is the smallest Westphalian municipality - measured by the number of inhabitants - as well as the second smallest town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Heimbach (Eifel). Hallenberg was founded by the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden, as a border fortress and was a farming town until well into the 20th century. This changed only in recent times with the settlement of commercial enterprises and the upswing of tourism.

The Jewish Community of Greater Dortmund has had its current community center on Prinz-Friedrich-Karl-Strasse in Dortmund-Mitte since 1956. At the end of the 1990s, the synagogue became too small. A new building with a multi-purpose hall was built behind the administration building. It holds 500 people.[1]

As early as 1241/42, the Jewish community of Düren in Düren (North Rhine-Westphalia) was mentioned. In the 13th century, Rabbi Isaak ben Meïr from Düren is also mentioned.

The Jewish community of Freckenhorst existed since the 18th century and later merged with the Jewish community of Warendorf.

The Gürzenich Jewish Community was a Jewish community in the Gürzenich district of Dueren.

The Jewish community of Honnef (now Bad Honnef), a town in the Rhine-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, came into being in 1887 and was wiped out by Nazi persecution.