Synagogue

The synagogue of the religious community of Meisenheim, built in the years 1864-1866, was the largest of the former 20 synagogues in the Bad Kreuznach district.

On the night of the pogroms on November 9, 1938, the interior was devastated and the building set on fire, which was, however, extinguished again to protect the neighboring building.

When a new community arose in the 2nd half of the 14th century, they built this synagogue.

The synagogue in Laudenbach is one of the oldest village synagogues in Germany still preserved in its outer form today. Its date of origin dates back to the 17th century. The first written record dates back to 1667 and during this time it was used not only by Jewish families from Laudenbach itself but also by Jews from the surrounding villages. In 1736 a fundamental renovation takes place with.a moderate extension. The building takes on its present appearance. Inside the house, there is evidence of many reconstruction measures and embellishments.

The Old Synagogue Square in Freiburg im Breisgau is a place of remembrance of Jewish life and its temporary extinction. Here stood the synagogue of the Jewish community of Freiburg from 1870 to 1938. Its complete destruction during the November pogrom was followed by the expulsion and murder of all 1,138 Freiburg Jews. After the Second World War, the city of Freiburg remained in possession of the site as a result of a settlement with the newly founded Jewish community.

Initially, the Jews living in Brotdorf attended the synagogue in Merzig. By the first half of the 19th century at the latest, a prayer room had been established in Brotdorf in one of the Jewish houses. When the number of Jewish inhabitants had increased relatively strongly around the middle of the 19th century, the community decided to build a synagogue. The previous prayer hall had become too small. In order to finance the synagogue, a house collection was to be held in other communities in the spring of 1854, but this was rejected.

After the Jewish population of Telgte grew to three families, a 200-year-old half-timbered storehouse located behind the house of Telgte's oldest Jewish family was extended by two storeys and converted into a synagogue. Remains of the barrel vault, the Torah shrine, the bima, the staircase to the women's gallery and one of the four large windows have been preserved.

On the Markenhof estate near Kirchzarten Alexander Moch from Schwanau-Nonnenweier operated a farm since 1919, which also served as a hachshara, i.e. preparation for immigration to Palestine. The Markenhof is considered the "first kibbutz of German Jews" (Ruben Frankenstein). The teaching estate was financed by the Jewish entrepreneur Konrad Goldmann. He also established with his funds a synagogue on the farm, whose windows were designed by Friedrich Adler from Laupheim.