Synagogue

By bombs the building was further destroyed in the second world war. Last use: Jewish community center with synagogue

The present synagogue Worms goes back to the synagogue built in 1034. From this first building the founder's inscription has been preserved - today it is built into the outer wall next to the main portal. The synagogue was built as a hall with two columns (two naves) and a bima in the center. It was the first building of this type and set the trend for later synagogue buildings. In the same way synagogues were built in Regensburg (1210/1220), Prague (1260s), Vienna (1294) and Krakow (15th century)

At first there was probably a prayer room. In 1725 a synagogue could be built. For more than 200 years it was the center of Jewish community life in the village. It was a building with a size of 13,8 m x 9,8 m with a hipped roof. In the men's prayer room it had last 90 seats, on the presumably three-sided circumferential women's gallery it had 50 seats. 

In the second half of the 17th century there was probably a prayer room in one of the Jewish residential houses. However, there is no documentary evidence. An old synagogue around 1700 could have been established in a building in the Webergasse. Also for this no written proofs are present. 

Last use: storage room of a supermarket

At the beginning of the 19th century, Jews living in Schifferstadt first attended the synagogue in Speyer, then in Böhl. Since 1826 there was a prayer hall available. It had been furnished by the Jewish families together and equipped with the necessary rituals. The location of this first prayer hall is unknown. It sufficed for the purposes of the community for about 25 years. 

The synagogue in Rülzheim was built in 1832/33 by the well-known synagogue architect August von Voit (Bavarian court architect). He also designed the plans of the synagogues in Herxheim, Ingenheim, Kallstadt, Kirchheimbolanden and Speyer. In Rülzheim, it is a late classicist, flat-roofed, two-story hall building with a flat gable roof.

Last use: row house development

Already in the Middle Ages there was a prayer room or a synagogue (called 1313). 
 
In the 18th century a prayer hall may have been established again. Until 1855 this was in a building in the Keutelstraße. In the middle of the 19th century, the construction of a new synagogue had become urgently necessary due to the rapidly increasing number of Jewish residents. The community was able to acquire a plot of land "Im Entenpfuhl" in 1854 and presumably began building a new synagogue in the same year. 1855 took place the consecration of the synagogue.