Alemannia Judaica

In Heppenheim an der Wiese Jews could settle probably since the beginning of the 18th century  1722 two Jewish families were in the place, 1743 one family.

The Jewish cemetery in Alsheim was established only in 1896. Previously (since 1840) the dead of the community were buried in Osthofen . Jewish people who died in Mettenheim and Gimbsheim also found their final resting place in the Alsheim cemetery. The cemetery area covers 6.38 ar.

The religious school was called Israelitische Volksschule from 1873. In 1881, it had 18 pupils, including two Christian children. 

A prayer room existed around 1743, when Jacob David had provided a room in his house for worship and prayer and at the same time donated a Torah.

The Women's Benevolent Society was under the leadership of Mrs. Isidor David in 1924 and had nine members.

The club was under the leadership of Alfred David in 1924 and had eight members.

There was no religious school in Weimar. For the first time, and only temporarily, a rabbi was employed in 1839/40 to teach the children the Jewish faith: Dr. Avraham Hirsh Levisohn, tutor to the Elkan family. It was not until the turn of the century that there were renewed activities to establish regular Jewish religious education. The Israelite Religious Association, founded in 1903, was dedicated to this purpose. From 1909 to 1913 there was a religious school with 10 children, later still small group instruction.

The statutes of the Jewish Religious Association state that the aim of the association is the preparation of the High Holidays and the implementation of religious education for children. The first chairman was the merchant Rudolf Sachs, from 1911 he was followed by the merchant Salomon (Sally) Kauffmann, after his death by the merchant Israel Berlowitz. The association was a member of the German-Israelite Community Federation. In 1925 every fourth of the 105 inhabitants belonged to it. Proposals to build a synagogue were put aside before 1914.

Due to the National Socialist machinations and boycott measures, the first Jewish families emigrated as early as 1932/33, including cattle trader Siegmund Levi and his wife to Palestine.

To take care of religious duties of the community was employed a teacher, who was also active as a prayer leader and shochet. In 1864, a private Jewish house was converted into a schoolhouse with a teacher's apartment. At the Lehrerseminar in Hildburghausen since the 1st half of the 19th century over several decades Jewish teachers were also trained.