Alemannia Judaica

Contradictory statements in the literature on the date of demolition: 1951 (Krause-Schmitt, v. Freyberg, Wehe, 1995) and 1947 (Altaras, 1988 + Arnsberg, 1971)

Contradictory information on current use: new building (Zacharias, 1988) - private driveway (Altaras, 1988). 

Last use: residential and commercial

Last use: residential

Nothing is known about medieval facilities in Königstein.  

Initially, services were held in prayer rooms of Jewish residential houses. In 1860, the prayer room was in an old house that had fallen into disrepair. In that year a synagogue building was approved, but the community members were so poor that they could not raise the funds for it. In 1868, community elders Israel Weinberg and Heinemann Plaut asked the Prussian king for a financial grant to build the synagogue. A short time later, a synagogue and a community schoolhouse were built. However, both fell victim to a fire on September 28, 1886.

In 1695 Landgrave Ernst Ludwig gave permission to the Darmstadt Jews to set up a prayer room and hold services. This prayer room was located with Hirtz until 1705, and with the court Jew Benedikt Löw until 1714. In 1735, the Jewish community acquired the house Kleine Ochsengasse 14 and converted it into a synagogue; the inauguration took place in 1737. The synagogue was extensively renovated and expanded in 1842.

The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria (IKG) is with about 9500 members the second largest Jewish community in Germany in the legal form of a corporation under public law. Like the communities of Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin, it forms an independent state association within the Central Council of Jews in Germany and is one of the two state associations in Bavaria.

A local Jewish community can be proved at least since 1730 by the Jewish cemetery, documented since then, which belonged to the relatively large Jewish community of Gudensberg and for a long time was also the burial place of Jews from a number of other Jewish communities in the surrounding area. In 1835 there were already 45 Jewish inhabitants in Obervorschütz itself; in 1861 there were 47. In the last quarter of the 19th century their number declined sharply due to emigration to the USA and migration to larger German cities, so that in 1905 there were only 19 Jews living in the village.

The antecedents of the Jewish community of Karlsruhe date back to the Middle Ages. The community has existed since about 1717, interrupted in the years 1940 to 1945. It is part of the Israelite Religious Community of Baden.

In Emden there was a Jewish community until 1938/40. Its origin goes back to the time of the 16th century. According to old, historically not provable legends there should have been Jewish women*Jews in the city already in the antiquity. Already after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus (70 AD) Jewish prisoners are said to have been put ashore in Emden. According to the Frisian historian Eggerik Beninga (1490-1562; Chronik van Oostfriesland. E.