District rabbinate Heidelberg

The Heidelberg district rabbinate was established in Heidelberg in Baden in 1827 and was one of 15 district rabbinates , also known as district synagogues. From 1875, Heidelberg also looked after the rabbinical districts of Ladenburg and Sinsheim .

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

• Baiertal Jewish Community
• Jewish community of Dossenheim
• Jewish community of Greater Saxony
• Handschuhsheim Jewish Community
• Heidelberg Jewish Community
• Jewish community of Hemsbach
• Jewish community of Hockenheim
• Ketch Jewish community
• Jewish community Laudenbach (Bergstrasse)
• Jewish community of Leimen (Baden)
• Jewish community of Leutershausen (Bergstrasse)
• Jewish community of Lützelsachsen
• Jewish community of Meckesheim
• Jewish community in Nussloch
• Reilingen Jewish community
• Jewish community Rohrbach (Heidelberg)
• Sandhausen Jewish Community
• Jewish community Schwetzingen
• Jewish community of Tairnbach
• Jewish community Weinheim
• Jewish community of Wiesloch
• Walldorf Jewish Community (Baden)

District rabbi

• 1827 to 1870 Prince Salomon
• 1872 to 1889 Hillel Sondheimer
• 1899 to 1930 Hermann Pinkuss
• 1930 to 1936 Fritz Pinkuss
• 1936 to 1938 Ulrich Steuer

Web links

• Jewish community Heidelberg near Alemannia Judaica

literature

• Grand Ducal Baden State and Government Gazette No. III of February 8, 1828, p. 20.
• Joachim Hahn and 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)