Obersulm is a municipality in the
district of Heilbronn,
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...
,
Germany
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, formed in the 1970s as a merger of the formerly independent municipalities Affaltrach, Eichelberg, Eschenau, Sülzbach, Weiler, and Willsbach. It is situated 12 km east of
Heilbronn
Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District.
From the late Middle Ages on, it developed into an important trading centre. At the begi ...
. Its name refers to its geographical location in the upper ("Ober-") valley of the small river
Sulm.
The nineteenth-century
synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...
has been restored in 1987.
Demographics
Population development:
See also
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Jews in Affaltrach
The history of the Jews in Affaltrach in Obersulm, Germany started in the 17th century and ended in the 20th century during the The Holocaust, Holocaust.
Affaltrach is a village in southwest Germany, in the Obersulm municipality, about 50 k ...
References
Heilbronn (district)
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