In 1813 Jews in Rottweil asked Frederick I of Württemberg for the profaned church St John the Baptist in order to establish a synagogue there . The church was part of the former '' Kommende '' of Knights Hospitaller . In 1861 , the '' Synagogenbauverein '' acquired the building from the former mayor Dr. Rapp and furnished it with a prayer room the same year . In 1865 , the Jewish commune in Rottweil bought the building . A description is given by Dr. Michael Silberstein in 1875 . It was completely renovated in the 1920s . In the Kristallnacht 1938 , the prayer room was demolished by members of the SA . They also burned the Torah on the street . The memorial plaques with the names of Jewish soldiers in the first world war were destroyed
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Synagoge Rottweil