Obersulm is a municipality in the
district of Heilbronn,
Baden-Württemberg,
Germany, 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. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state.
From the late Mid ...
. Its name refers to its geographical location in the upper ("Ober-") valley of the small river
Sulm.
The nineteenth-century
synagogue
A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...
has been restored.
See also
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Jews in Affaltrach
The history of the Jews in Affaltrach in Obersulm, Germany reaches back to the 17th century and ended during the Holocaust in the 20th century.
Affaltrach is a village in South West Germany, incorporated to the Obersulm municipality, which is loc ...
References
Heilbronn (district)
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