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Stühlingen is a town on the border between Germany and Switzerland in the Waldshut district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
By Roman times the valley floor in the immediate neighborhood of Stühlingen had been long settled. In Grimmelshofen graves have been found dating from the late Merovingian period. The foundations of Schloss Hohenlupfen date from this time since they are built on the foundations of a Roman signal Tower.
In 1262, the Count of Lupfen enclosed an oval area on a mountain spur above the Wutach valley. He obtained a town charter and today this is the town of Stühlingen.
From the 16th to the middle of the 18th century, Stühlingen and its surroundings were home to a flourishing Jewish community, which was finally expelled in 1743. According to legend, the evicted Jews of Stühlingen were among the early Jews in Endingen, Lengnau, Gailingen, Randegg, and Tiengen. The first two communities formed the early core of Swiss Jewry.
During the Third Reich the Stühlingen town charter was repealed under the Deutsche Gemeindeordnung of 1935. At the end of World War II, it was restored. The granting of the town charter was marked by the planting of a linden tree in the Jewish quarter, the „Stadtlinde“.
Around 5,000 people currently live in Stühlingen.
An old Jewish cemetery exists on the outskirts of Stühlingen. For a long time, its exact whereabouts was unknown, but it was rediscovered in 2013. It is untended and overgrown. Only one headstone was found.
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/baden-wuerttemberg-baden-...
Stühlingen had a synagogue until 1743. It dated from the 16th century. On Aug. 12, 1615, eight Jewish families were given permission to live in Stühlingen for 14 years. By 1671, there were 13 Jewish households. By 1700, there were 25 Jewish households in Stühlingen. In exchange for payments to the rulers of Stühlingen, Jews were allowed to live there until 1743.
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/stuehlingen_synagoge.htm
The Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., New York, NY 10011, has the following information about the Jews of Stühlingen in its files:
Peter Stein: "Die Juden zu Stuehlingen und ihre Nachkommen" 1999 Manuscript by Peter Stein: "Die Juden zu Stuehlingen und ihre Nachkommen" (written: 27.7.1999, 25 pages), describing Jewish families in Stuehlingen, a village in Germany close to the border to Switzerland. Included are family trees of Marum Marx Weil and Jakob Weil, as well as a list (photocopy) of the payments to the Jewish community in the year 1735/1736.
http://digital.cjh.org//exlibris/dtl/d3_1/apache_media/L2V4bGlicmlz...