District rabbinate Buchau

The Buchau district rabbinate was established in 1832 in Buchau in what was then the Kingdom of Württemberg and was one of 13 district rabbinates , also known as district synagogues.

By a decree of the Royal Ministry of the Interior of August 3, 1832, after the amalgamation or dissolution of various Jewish communities , the 41 parishes in total were divided into 13 district rabbinates. Buchau became the seat of a rabbinical district because there was a large Jewish community there, which in 1838 had 736 members. The district rabbinates were subordinate to the upper church authority , which was also created in 1832 .

tasks

The tasks included the implementation of the sovereign ordinances, the promulgation and 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

• The Jewish community in Buchau was the center of worship for the Jews living in Ravensburg , Leutkirch , Riedlingen , Wangen im Allgäu and Saulgau .
• Jewish community Kappel (today Bad Buchau)
• Jewish community of Buttenhausen (today part of Münsingen )

District rabbi

• 1820 to 1834 Jakob Kaufmann
• 1834 to 1841 Moses Bloch
• 1841 to 1861 Michael Güldenstein
• 1862 to 1886 Elkan Weimann
• 1887 to 1914 Jonas Laupheimer

literature

• Joachim Hahn , Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities (= memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. Vol. 4). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 .
• Andrea Hoffmann: In the field of tension between denominations. The Buchau rabbinate in the long 19th century. Studies on the history of relations between Jews and Christians ( dissertation University of Tübingen 2008)

Web links

• Jewish community Buchau near Alemannia Judaica