synagogue of Bergheim

The existence of the Bergheim Synagogue attests to the presence of a large Jewish community over the centuries in Bergheim consisting of 68 families in 1784. The number of the Jewish community in Bergheim reached 513 people in 1838, and it is worth noting that it was then the strongest Jewish community in the Alsace region, except that after the dispersal And extermination during the Holocaust, the Jewish community in Bergheim has only two families! The current synagogue building was restored in 2002 and is the only synagogue in Alsace still standing on the site of its construction in the 14th century.