The Jewish merchant Moyses Gydeon bought in 1727 a house in Kirchstrasse 11, in which a prayer room would be installed. The house appeared in 1754 in written sources as Judenschul. It belonged to the Jewish protected citizen Model Weil. Apart from prayers and meetings, religious instructions for children took place here. The house was transformed into a synagogue in 1763. The old synagogue was then too small for the growing Israelite Community. The Jewish Community erected a new synagogue on a plot of land at the Schlossplatz. It was renovated, enlarged and solemnly inaugurated in 1869. Soon it could not satisfy the spatial requirements of the Community. The second renovation and enlargement was planned already before World War 1, the construction could only begin in 1922.
	The initiator of the second reconstruction was the head of the Synagogue Council of that time, Mr. Simon Veit, who rendered great services to the Israelite Community and to the town of Emmendingen. The enlarged Synagogue was inaugurated solemnly on 27.07.1923. All the speakers emphasized the good coexistence of different denominations in Emmendingen. Only 15 years later the crystal night put a violent end to this. Since 1997 the office of the new-founded Emmendingen Jewish Community has again been located in the building at Kirchstrasse 11.