" In 1844, the community inaugurated a synagogue on Ziegelgasse...Later, on Pogrom Night (November 1938), rioters vandalized the synagogue, destroyed its interior...The synagogue building—used as a public bathhouse after 1938—was torn down in 1982 or 1984."
Esther Sarah Evans
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

Notes

Sources: Alemannia Judaica, www.alemannia-judaica.de The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, www.iajgs.org, “und dies ist die Pforte des Himmels”: Synagogen Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland, Will Schmid, Stefan Fischbach and Ingrid Westerhoff [Eds.], publication initiated by Joachim Glatz and Meier Schwarz, [publisher] Phillipp Von Zabern, 2005.

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