Transcript Tracking Jewish History in Southern Germany Along the Rhine Valley up to Lake Constance (Bodensee) Dr.

Tracking Jewish History in
Southern Germany
Along the Rhine Valley up to
Lake Constance (Bodensee)
Dr. Joachim Hahn – Alemannia Judaica
State of Baden-Wuerttemberg – marked in colour
Some towns and villages with Jewish History
Jewish communities in Baden-Wuerttemberg and surrounding (2013)
„Synagogen in
Baden-Wuerttemberg“
(1987)
„Erinnerungen und Zeugnisse jüdischer
Geschichte in Baden-Württemberg“
(1988)
Visiting a former Synagogue in a village (2012):
Dr. Joachim Hahn and Rabbi Shaul Friberg
(Heidelberg)
Some towns and villages with Jewish History
Hemsbach:
Rothschild-Palais,
since 1925 town hall
of Hemsbach
Carl Mayer von Rothschild
(1788 – 1855)
Hemsbach: Jewish Cemetery
Hemsbach: former Synagogue
Hemsbach:
former Mikwe and „Stolpersteine“
Weinheim: medieval „Judengasse“
Weinheim:
Synagogue of 1906 –
destroyed in 1938
Mannheim: Main Synagogue
from 1855 - destroyed in 1938
Today‘s memorial plaque
Mannheim
New Synagogue inaugurated in 1987
1925
Mannheim:
old Jewish cemetery destroyed in 1938
2010
Mannheim: new Jewish Cemetery
1840 – today
Heidelberg – Synagogue of 1878
Destroyed in 1938
Heidelberg: site of the former synagogue with memorial plaques
Heidelberg: new Synagogue, inaugurated in 1994
Heidelberg: new Synagogue,
inaugurated in 1994
Heidelberg:
old Jewish cemetery
Klingenteichstrasse
Heidelberg:
Jewish Cemetery Bergstrasse
(Bergfriedhof)
Leimen: former palais of Aron Seligmann
(built in 1792), since 1985 townhall
Some towns and villages with Jewish History
Waibstadt – cemetery and Weil Mausoleum
Walldorf: former synagogue
Wiesloch:
Jewish cemetery
Bruchsal area
Gondelsheim: former synagogue
Bruchsal: memorial plaque
for the destroyed synagogue
Bad Mingolsheim: former synagogue
Heidelsheim: „Judengasse“
Karlsruhe
Main synagogue built in 1873-1875
destroyed in 1938
Today‘s memorial
Karlsruhe
Synagogue and community center
(inaugurated 1971)
Fotos from the inauguration of a
new Sefer Torah in May 2013
Karlsruhe
Jewish cemetery Kriegsstrasse
with stones from the cemetery
Mendelssohnplatz (leveled in 1898)
Karlsruhe: Jewish Cemetery Neu- und Haidstrasse
Orthodox cemetery
Some towns and villages with Jewish History
Kuppenheim
Jewish cemetery
Baden-Baden
Synagoge built in 1897-1898
destroyed 1938
Memorial marks
Baden-Baden
Today‘s Synagogue
Offenburg: Old Mikwe
Former Synagogue („Salmen“; 1875-1938)
Kippenheim: former synagogue
Kippenheim
Schmieheim:
Jewish Cemetery
Schmieheim:
former Synagogue
Some towns and villages with Jewish History
Emmendingen: new Synagogue
Emmendingen:
Old Synagogue, 1938 destroyed
Old cemetery
Freiburg:
new Synagogue
inaugurated in 1987
Freiburg
Jewish cemeteries:
Old Cemetery 1869 - today
New Cemetery since 2012
Eichstetten
Synagogue built in 1829-30
Destroyed in 1938
Ihringen:
„Synagogenplatz“ with
memorial
Former jewish teachers house
and building of the mikwe
Ihringen:
Jewish cemetery
Breisach: „Synagogenplatz“ with plaque
„Blaues Haus“
(former Jewish community house)
Breisach – new Jewish cemetery
(since 1850)
Muellheim: Jewish cemetery
with stones from the synagogue
Sulzburg
Former Synagogue
Sulzburg – Jewish cemetery
Loerrach: Old and new Jewish cemetery
Loerrach:
New synagogue
and community centre –
inaugurated in 2008
Some towns and villages with Jewish History
(Waldshut)-Tiengen
Jewish Cemetery – destroyed 1938
Randegg
Jewish Cemetery
Gailingen
Leopold Guggenheim – mayor of Gailingen (1870-1884)
Former Jewish Senior Citizen
Home „Friedrichsheim“
Former Jewish Hospital
Gailingen – Jewish Cemetery
Gailingen – former Jewish school and
Rabbinat - today Jewish museum
Überlingen
Jewish gravestones
Oldest Stone from 1275
Constance - Konstanz
„Judentum“ (Jew Tower“)
from the 13th century
Constance - Konstanz
Synagogue built in 1883
- destroyed in 1938
Konstanz – Constance Jewish Cemetery
Constance - Konstanz
Synagogue (prayer room)
New Mikwe
(opened in 2009)