1. Tracking Jewish History in Southern Germany
Along the Rhine Valley up to
Lake Constance (Bodensee)
Dr. Joachim Hahn – Alemannia Judaica

2. State of Baden-Wuerttemberg – marked in colour

3. Some towns and villages with Jewish History

4. Jewish communities in Baden-Wuerttemberg and surrounding (2013)

5. „Erinnerungen und Zeugnisse jüdischer
„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)

6. Some towns and villages with Jewish History

7. Carl Mayer von Rothschild
Hemsbach:
Rothschild-Palais,
since 1925 town hall
of Hemsbach
Carl Mayer von Rothschild
(1788 – 1855)

8. Hemsbach: Jewish Cemetery

9. Hemsbach: former Synagogue

10. Hemsbach:
former Mikwe and „Stolpersteine“

11. Weinheim: medieval „Judengasse“

12. Weinheim:
Synagogue of 1906 – destroyed in 1938

13. Mannheim: Main Synagogue Today‘s memorial plaque
from destroyed in 1938
Today‘s memorial plaque

14. Mannheim
New Synagogue -
inaugurated in 1987

15. 1925
Mannheim:
old Jewish cemetery -
destroyed in 1938
2010

16. Mannheim: new Jewish Cemetery
1840 – today

17. Heidelberg – Synagogue of 1878
Destroyed in 1938

18. Heidelberg: site of the former synagogue with memorial plaques

19. Heidelberg: new Synagogue, inaugurated in 1994

20. Heidelberg: new Synagogue,
inaugurated in 1994

21. Heidelberg:
old Jewish cemetery
Klingenteichstrasse

22. Jewish Cemetery Bergstrasse
Heidelberg:
Jewish Cemetery Bergstrasse
(Bergfriedhof)

23. Leimen: former palais of Aron Seligmann
(built in 1792), since 1985 townhall

24. Some towns and villages with Jewish History

25. Waibstadt – cemetery and Weil Mausoleum

26. Walldorf: former synagogue

27. Wiesloch:
Jewish cemetery

28. Bruchsal area Gondelsheim: former synagogue
Bruchsal: memorial plaque for the destroyed synagogue
Heidelsheim: „Judengasse“
Bad Mingolsheim: former synagogue

29. Karlsruhe Main synagogue built in 1873-1875 destroyed in 1938
Today‘s memorial

30. Karlsruhe
Synagogue and community center
(inaugurated 1971)
Fotos from the inauguration of a
new Sefer Torah in May 2013

31. Karlsruhe Jewish cemetery Kriegsstrasse with stones from the cemetery
Mendelssohnplatz (leveled in 1898)

32. Karlsruhe: Jewish Cemetery Neu- und Haidstrasse
Orthodox cemetery

33. Some towns and villages with Jewish History

34. Kuppenheim
Jewish cemetery

35. Baden-Baden
Synagoge built in
destroyed 1938
Memorial marks

36. Baden-Baden
Today‘s Synagogue

37. Offenburg: Old Mikwe
Former Synagogue („Salmen“; )

38. Kippenheim: former synagogue

39. Schmieheim:
Jewish Cemetery

40. Schmieheim:
former Synagogue

41. Some towns and villages with Jewish History

42. Emmendingen: new Synagogue

43. Emmendingen:
Old Synagogue, 1938 destroyed
Old cemetery

44. Freiburg:
new Synagogue
inaugurated in 1987

45. Freiburg
Jewish cemeteries:
Old Cemetery today
New Cemetery since 2012

46. Eichstetten
Synagogue built in
Destroyed in 1938

47. Ihringen:
„Synagogenplatz“ with
memorial
Former jewish teachers house
and building of the mikwe

48. Ihringen:
Jewish cemetery

49. Breisach: „Synagogenplatz“ with plaque (former Jewish community house)
„Blaues Haus“
(former Jewish community house)

50. Breisach – new Jewish cemetery
(since 1850)

51. Muellheim: Jewish cemetery
with stones from the synagogue

52. Sulzburg
Former Synagogue

53. Sulzburg – Jewish cemetery

54. Loerrach: Old and new Jewish cemetery

55. Loerrach:
New synagogue
and community centre –
inaugurated in 2008

56. Some towns and villages with Jewish History

57. (Waldshut)-Tiengen
Jewish Cemetery – destroyed 1938

58. Randegg
Jewish Cemetery

59. Gailingen Leopold Guggenheim – mayor of Gailingen (1870-1884)
Former Jewish Senior Citizen Home „Friedrichsheim“
Former Jewish Hospital

60. Gailingen – Jewish Cemetery

61. Gailingen – former Jewish school and Rabbinat - today Jewish museum

62. Überlingen
Jewish gravestones
Oldest Stone from 1275

63. Constance - Konstanz
„Judentum“ (Jew Tower“)
from the 13th century

64. Constance - Konstanz
Synagogue built in 1883
- destroyed in 1938

65. Konstanz – Constance Jewish Cemetery

66. Constance - Konstanz
Synagogue (prayer room)
New Mikwe
(opened in 2009)