This project seeks to document all of the Jewish families from the town of Schwanfeld (Unterfranken/Bayern), Germany. Schwanfeld is a rural town of approximately 83k people located at Latitude 49°55', Longitude 10°08' in the area once called Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, in the district of Schweinfurt, about midway between the town of Schweinfurt and the city of Würzburg. Jewish...
This project aims to share information about the small Jewish community of Sommerach, Bavaria, and to serve as a connection point for profiles with ties to the community.Sommerach is located near Kitzingen, in the Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) region of Bavaria, Germany. Wikipedia article on the Jewish community of Sommerach (in German) The Synagogue in Sommerach, article from Allemania-Judaic...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Buttenhausen, Germany. General Community Information: JewishGen-Buttenhausen Town Page Historical Tour of Buttenhausen - Münsingen [PDF in English and German; sites of Jewish interest] Buttenhausen Jüdische Geschichte / Synagoge [from Allemania Judaica, in German] The Jews of Buttenhausen [blog, possibly inactive] Civ...
There was a Jewish community in Nieder-Wiesen in the Alzey-Worms areuntil 1933. The history of the community goes back to the 18th century. 1804 76 Jewish inhabitants, 1824 84 1828 91 1861 124 (21,1 % von insgesamt 588 Einwohnern) 1880 82 (14,3 % von 573), 1900 62, 1910 53 (9,1 % von 568).There was a synagogue and a school and a cemetery.Family names such as Mendel, Herzog, Strauss, Levi, Mayer