District rabbinate Merchingen

The Merchingen district rabbinate was established in Merchingen, a current district of Ravenstein in Baden , in 1827 , and was one of 15 district rabbinates , also known as district synagogues. Since 1886 the Rabbinate Merchingen has been looked after by the District Rabbinate Mosbach .

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

• Angeltürn Jewish Community
• Adelsheim Jewish community
• Jewish community of Bödigheim
• Jewish community in Buchen
• Jewish community Ballenberg (Ravenstein)
• Jewish community of Eubigheim (Ahorn / Baden, today the Untereubigheim district)
• Jewish community Eberstadt (Buchen / Odenwald)
• Jewish community of Hüngheim
• Jewish community of Hainstadt (Buchen)
• Jewish community of Korb (from 1846, since Korb came to Baden from Württemberg)
• Jewish community of Krautheim (Jagst)
• Jewish community Merchingen (Ravenstein)
• Jewish community Neuenstetten
• Jewish community Rosenberg (Baden)
• Sennfeld Jewish community
• Sindolsheim Jewish Community
• Jewish Community of Unterschüpf

District rabbi

• 1808 to 1832 Joseph Jakob Fulda
• 1832 to 1857 Zacharias Staadecker
• 1858 to 1861 Julius Fürst (rabbi)
• 1861 to 1886 Baruch Hirsch Flehinger
• 1883 to 1884 Louis Heilbut (rabbinate vicar or rabbinate corrupt )

Web links

• Jewish community of Merchingen near Alemannia Judaica

literature

• 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)