Jewish Community

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.

The Jewish community of Königswinter, today a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, came into being in 1853 and was dissolved in 1906.

The history of the Jewish community of Lechenich, a small town about 20 km west of Cologne, covers a period of about 700 years. It begins in the 13th century and ends in 1942. The heyday of the Jewish community was at the end of the 19th century. Through the persecution of the Jews by the National Socialists, Jewish life in Lechenich was completely destroyed.