District rabbinate Bruchsal

The Bruchsal district rabbinate was established in Baden in 1827 and was one of 15 district rabbinates , also known as district synagogues.

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. The Bruchsal district rabbinate was merged with the Bretten district rabbinate in 1924 .

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.

Parishes of the rabbinical district 1827

Jewish community Bruchsal , Jewish community Jöhlingen , Jewish community Heidelsheim , Jewish community Mingolsheim , Jewish community Obergrombach , Jewish community Odenheim , Jewish community Östringen and Jewish community Untergrombach .

According to the ordinance of February 8, 1828, the Jewish communities of Eichtersheim , Malsch , Michelfeld and Philippsburg were assigned to the Bruchsal district rabbinate.

Municipalities of the rabbinical district after 1885

• Bruchsal Jewish community
• Jewish community of Eichtersheim
• Jewish community of Gondelsheim
• Jewish community of Graben
• Jewish community Heidelsheim
• Jewish community of Liedolsheim
• Jewish community of Malsch
• Jewish community Michelfeld
• Mingolsheim Jewish community
• Jewish community of Obergrombach
• Jewish community of Odenheim
• Oestringen Jewish community
• Philippsburg Jewish Community
• Jewish community Untergrombach
• Weingarten Jewish community

District rabbi

• 1790 to 1820 Pelta Moses Epstein
• 1821 to 1822 Abraham Epstein
• 1822 to 1847 Elias Präger
• 1847 to 1855 Moses Präger
• 1855 to 1870 Isak Friedberg
• 1870 to 1876 Leopold Schleßinger
• 1876 ​​to 1900 Josef Eschelbacher
• 1900 to 1906 Max Doctor
• 1906 to 1911 Max Eschelbacher
• 1911 to 1915 Ferdinand Straßburger (rabbinate vicar)
• 1911 to 1940 Siegfried Grzymisch

literature

• Berthold Rosenthal : Home history of the Baden Jews from their historical appearance to the present. Konkordia, Bühl 1927 (Reprint. Bissinger, Magstadt near Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7644-0092-7 ).
• Jürgen Stude: History of the Jews in Bruchsal . regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-441-8 ( publications on the history of the city of Bruchsal 23).