District Rabbinate (Baden)

The district rabbinates were created in Baden by ordinance of May 4, 1827 and divided the Jewish communities into district associations, which were also rabbinate districts .

Classification 1827

The following 15 district synagogues or district rabbinates were created:

• Breisach on the Rhine
• Boards
• Bruchsal
• Buhl
• Gailingen (moved to Constance from 1925 )
• Heidelberg
• Karlsruhe (was dissolved in 1885 and the communities were assigned to the district rabbinates of Bretten, Bruchsal and Bühl)
• Ladenburg
• Mannheim (The rabbinate consisted only of the Jewish city of Mannheim)
• Merchingen
• Mosbach
• Schmieheim
• Sinsheim
• Sulzburg
• Wertheim (moved to Tauberbischofsheim from 1850 to 1864 )

The district synagogues were directly subordinate to the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden . The chief was the district rabbi and the district elders. In matters of the rabbinical district, all local elders had to be heard once a year. The district rabbi presided.

Later classifications

• District rabbinate Freiburg im Breisgau : was created in 1885 and took over the district rabbinate of Breisach am Rhein . In 1887 it was also taken over by the Sulzburg district rabbinate .
• District rabbinate Offenburg : was created in 1893 and took over the district rabbinate Schmieheim . In 1925 it was taken over by the Bühl district rabbinate .
• City Council of Karlsruhe: was created in 1895 and consisted of the Jewish communities of Pforzheim and Karlsruhe .

tasks

The tasks included the execution of the sovereign ordinances, the proclamation and the enforcement of the ordinances of the Upper Council of the Israelites Bathing, consultations on school matters, the administration of foundations and the distribution of alms . To finance the district rabbinates, levies were paid by the individual Jewish communities.

swell

• Grand Ducal Baden State and Government Gazette No. X of May 4, 1827, pp. 84ff. and No. III of February 8, 1828, p. 20.

literature

• Berthold Rosenthal : Home history of the Baden Jews from their historical appearance to the present. Konkordia, Bühl 1927, p. 342 (Reprint. Bissinger, Magstadt near Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7644-0092-7 ).