Prayer Room

The Jewish inhabitants of Singen initially belonged to the synagogue community of Constance. In the course of the 1920s, their number increased to such an extent that a congregation foundation and the construction of a synagogue were seriously considered. In order not to always have to travel the long distances to the synagogues in Gailingen and Constance, they first set up a prayer hall. Salo Schärf, owner of the furniture store "Roll and Co.", made the rooms above his store in the Poststraße 19 and 21 (today's Freiheitstrasse) available for this purpose.

The building temporarily housed a Jewish prayer room.

In the Middle Ages there may have been a prayer room or synagogue, of which nothing more is known. After the number of Jewish families increased in the second half of the 19th century, prayer rooms were first used in Jewish residential houses. First in Eichel's house (Hauptmarkt 36), then in Liebenstein's house (Schwabhäuser Straße 6) and from 1877 in Rudolph's house (Siebleber Straße 8).