Lehrensteinsfeld district rabbinate

The Lehrensteinsfeld district rabbinate was established in Württemberg in 1832 and was one of 13 district rabbinates , also known as district synagogues.

By decree of the Ministry of the Interior of August 3, 1832, following the amalgamation or dissolution of various Jewish communities, the now 41 communities were divided into 13 district rabbinates. Lehrensteinsfeld became the seat of a rabbinate district because a rabbinate foundation of 1250 guilders existed there and thus the accommodation of a rabbi was secured. The rabbinate counted 1,011 souls in five parishes with other dependent parishes.

The district rabbinates were subordinate to the upper church authority , which was also created in 1832 . On July 1, 1867, the seat of the rabbinate was moved to Heilbronn .

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

Affaltrach Jewish community with the Eschenau branch community

Jewish community Heilbronn (re-established 1864)

Jewish community Kochendorf with the subsidiary communities Gundelsheim , Oedheim and Neckarsulm

Jewish community of Massenbachhausen with the branch communities of Bonfeld and Massenbach

Jewish community Sontheim with the branch communities Horkheim and Talheim

Jewish community of Lehrensteinsfeld

Jewish community Öhringen (newly founded in 1869)

District rabbi

1834 to 1835 Naphtali Frankfurter (born February 19, 1810), rabbinate corrupt
1835 to 1844 Seligmann Grünwald (born July 23, 1800 in Mühringen ; died May 12, 1856 in Freudental )
1844 to 1858 Maier Hirsch Löwengart (born March 5, 1813 in Rexingen ; died May 10, 1886 in Basel )
1858 to 1861 Marx Kallmann (born May 24, 1795 in Buttenhausen ; died 1863 in Lehrensteinsfeld)
1862 Elkan Weimann (born June 10, 1818; died September 25, 1886 in Buchau)
1862 to 1889 Moses Engelbert (born June 13, 1830; died January 17, 1891 in Heilbronn), moved to Heilbronn in 1867
1889 to 1892 Berthold Einstein (born December 31, 1862 in Ulm ; died June 4, 1935 in Landau ), rabbinate administrator
1892 to 1914 Ludwig Kahn (born June 17, 1845 in Baisingen ; died October 9, 1914 in Heilbronn)
1914 to 1935 Max Beermann (born April 5, 1871 in Berlin ; died August 2, 1935 in Heilbronn)
1935 to 1938 Harry Heimann (born April 1, 1910 in Bromberg ), emigrated to America in 1938

literature

Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives . Volume 11), pp. 67-68.
Martin Ritter: The synagogue in Affaltrach . Friends of the former synagogue Affaltrach eV, Obersulm 2001 ( Friends of the former synagogue Affaltrach eV, Volume 4)