District rabbinate Ladenburg

The Ladenburg district rabbinate was established in Ladenburg in Baden in 1827 and was one of 15 district rabbinates , also known as district synagogues. The duties of the district rabbi were performed from 1875 by the district rabbi of the Heidelberg rabbinate .

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 in Feudenheim
• Jewish community of Ilvesheim
• Ladenburg Jewish Community
• Jewish community Schriesheim

District rabbi

• 1827 to 1835 Jakob Ettlinger
• 1849 Löb Ettlinger

Web links

• Jewish community of Ladenburg near Alemannia Judaica

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 .