In the Middle Ages , the Jews in Germany have been expelled from the cities to the countryside and to the margins of society . Therefore , they have settled usually isolated and sporadic . There has been no considerable Jewish community life anymore . Not earlier than at the end of the 16th century there has been again signs of a Jewish reorganization . Jews have begun to re-establish Jewish communities in the villages and have started to build synagogues . In Swabia , this was happening faster , than elsewhere in Germany . The synagogues became more and more handsome . Between 1780 and 1820 it developed its own Swabian style of synagogues , inspired by the Empire style . The following former synagogues are examples for this specific Swabian style . All of them have been plundered and vandalized 1938 during Kristallnacht . The use of the buildings as synagogues was thus ended
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Synagogues of the Swabian type