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The synagogue in Adelsheim in northern Baden-Württemberg was built in 188/1890. It is located in the Tanzbergstraße at the corner of Untere Austraße 1.

The Jewish community of Adelsheim had possessed a synagogue earlier; it had become too small, however.

During the pogroms of Crystal Night, on November 10, 1938, the interior of the synagogue was completely destroyed and the Torah Scrolls were publically burned.

The synagogue building came into the possession of the town of Adelsheim in 1939. Starting in 1947, the Youth Club of Adelsheim occupied the synagogue. Since the 1950s, a milk collection place and a storage room of an agricultural communal organization was housed here. The building was torn down in the summer of 1977. In 2005, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the place where the synagogue once stood.

Literatur

 * Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum. Band 1: Aach – Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 (Online-Ausgabe).
 * Joachim Hahn und Jürgen Krüger: Synagogen in Baden-Württemberg. Band 2: Joachim Hahn: Orte und Einrichtungen. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5, S. 5–6 (Gedenkbuch der Synagogen in Deutschland. Band 4).

Weblinks

 * Synagoge in Adelsheim at Alemannia Judaica (German)