Tours of the Memmelsdorf synagogue and the information room are available for groups by appointment. In addition to the history and development of the synagogue building, the history of the Jewish community in Memmelsdorf, the development of rural Jewish life in the region and the way historical buildings are treated with in the present are the subjects of discussion.

After a tour of the synagogue, interested individual visitors can explore the synagogue by themselves with the help of visitor files. The folders were compiled by pupils of the Friedrich-Rückert-Gymnasium in Ebern in the 2003/2004 school year and they go into the individual traces of the picture cards in more depth ( Searching for traces).

The information room (former teacher’s quarters) was designed together with 12th year pupils of the Friedrich-Rückert-Gymnasium in Ebern in the 2004/2005 school year as part of the "denkmal aktiv" (active monument) project (www.denkmal-aktiv.de). They wrote the texts and chose the exhibits. In addition to the visitor files, it is above all fragments of the Geniza found in the synagogue that provide answers to the questions on the picture cards ( Searching for traces ) on "Architecture of the synagogue", "Religious service and the Torah", "Jewish celebrations – everyday Jewish life " and "Jews in Memmelsdorf and in the Hassberg district". Furthermore, donations form the district and gifts of the Israeli twin town of the Hassberg district, Kyriat Motzkin, have been integrated in the exhibition.

This activity is aimed at pupils of all types of junior or middle school. Taking the Memmelsdorf synagogue as an example, traces of Jewish history and religion can be discovered on location and placed in perspective using the picture cards developed by 11th year pupils of the Friedrich-Rückert-Gymnasium (grammar school) in Ebern ( example).

After an introduction, the synagogue is explored in small groups (of three or four pupils) with the help of different picture cards that are used to localise the individual traces. Key questions encourage reflection and stimulate the imagination. Answers to questions and the opportunity to verify speculations can be found in the information room. Afterwards, the pupils present their results. Personal thoughts on the images are as important here as correctly placing them. To conclude, the individual traces, their meaning and their background are deciphered in a joint discussion. 

To allow useful work to be accomplished, the size of the groups is limited to around 30 pupils/young people. You should plan at least 1.5 hours for searching for traces. If undertaken as project work, going into some topics in depth, a longer stay would be preferable. The following areas can be discovered

Traces of Jewish religion
Traces of renovation by the Jewish community
Traces of the development of the self-image of the Jewish community in the 19th century
Traces of destruction during the 1938 November pogrom
Traces of alternative use since 1945