The existence of the Bergheim Synagogue testifies to the presence of a large Jewish community over the centuries in Bergheim consisting of 68 families in 1784, and the number of the Jewish community in Bergheim reached 513 people in 1838, and it is worth noting that it was at that time the strongest Jewish community in the Alsace region, but after the dispersal Extermination during the Holocaust The Jewish community in Bergheim has only two families! The current synagogue building, restored in 2002, is the only synagogue in Alsace still standing on the site, having been built in the 14th century.