District rabbinate Bretten

The district rabbinate Bretten was established in Bretten in Baden in 1827 and was one of 15 district rabbinates , which were also known as district synagogues. The Bretten District Rabbinate was merged with the Bruchsal District Rabbinate in 1924 .

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

tasks

The tasks included the execution of the sovereign ordinances, the proclamation and the enforcement of the ordinances of the higher church authority , advice 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.

Parishes of the rabbinical district

• Jewish community of Bauerbach
• Jewish community of Berwangen (previously a district rabbinate of Sinsheim until 1877 )
• Bretten Jewish Community
• Jewish community of Diedelsheim
• Jewish community of Eppingen (previously part of the district rabbinate Sinsheim until 1877)
• Jewish community of Flehingen
• Jewish community Gemmingen (previously part of the district rabbinate Sinsheim until 1877)
• Jewish community of Gochsheim
• Jewish community of Gondelsheim
• Jewish Community of Grötzingen (from 1885, previously at the Karlsruhe district rabbinate )
• Jewish community of Grombach
• Jewish community of Ittlingen (previously part of the district rabbinate Sinsheim until 1877)
• Jöhlingen Jewish Community
• Jewish community of Menzingen
• Jewish community Mühlbach (previously part of the district rabbinate Sinsheim until 1877 )
• Münzesheim Jewish Community
• Jewish community Stein (Königsbach)

According to the ordinance of February 8, 1828, the Jöhlingen Jewish Community was now assigned to the Bretten District Rabbinate by the Bruchsal District Rabbinate.

District rabbi

• 1811 to 1854 Veit Flehinger
• 1855 to 1872 Moses Elieser Liberles (born May 22, 1824 in Kirchen ; died June 30, 1872 in Bretten). He was the son of Thias Liberles and Lea née Sussmann. He studied in Würzburg at the yeshiva and at the university . In 1853 he passed the Baden state examination for rabbis and became district rabbi in Bretten from 1855, where he held this office until his death in 1872. On February 25, 1857 he married Caroline nee Hirsch, the daughter of a wine merchant from Nagelsberg .
• 1877 to 1924 Leopold Schleßinger

Web links

• Bretten Jewish community near Alemannia Judaica

literature

• Joachim Hahn , Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4)
• Carsten Wilke : Biographical manual of the rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. Volume 2. Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 .