 All together, 22 of the community's Jewish population, for whom a memorial stone was placed at the graveyard in November 1988, were murdered in the Holocaust.A linden tree that is over 1000 years old stands on the former marketplace in Schenklengsfeld.According to the ARD programme "Deutschlands älteste Bäume" (“Germany’s Oldest Trees”), which was first broadcast on 23 April 2007, the tree, believed to be 1,120 years old, is Germany's oldest.