District rabbinate Wertheim

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The Wertheim District Rabbinate was established in Wertheim in Baden in 1827 and was one of 15 District Rabbinates , also known as District Synagogues. From 1850 to 1864 the seat of the rabbinate was in Tauberbischofsheim .

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

The following sixteen Jewish communities belonged to the rabbinate district Wertheim:

Jewish cemeteries in the rabbinical district

District rabbi

  • Leopold Löwenstein (district rabbi in Mosbach from 1886 to 1923) was also responsible for the district rabbinate in Wertheim.
  • Jakob Löwenstein (district rabbi from 1852 until his death in 1869 in Tauberbischofsheim); during the time when the seat of the district rabbinate was at the Jewish community of Tauberbischofsheim .
  • Julius Greilsheimer (district rabbi in Mosbach from 1924 to 1939) was also responsible for the district rabbinate in Wertheim. In January 1939 Greilsheimer and his family fled from the National Socialists to the Netherlands, from where the family was deported to Auschwitz on February 8, 1944 and murdered.

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)
  • Franz Gehrig , Hermann Müller: Tauberbischofsheim . Association of Tauberfränkische Heimatfreunde e. V., Tauberbischofsheim 1997, Chapter VIII: Die Juden von Tauberbischofsheim , pp. 285–288 (The fate of the Tauber-Franconian Jews since the Middle Ages), pp. 289–292 (Liberation and hope), pp. 292–294 (Persecution in the Third Reich and Emigration) and pp. 294–297 (witnesses to the Jewish past).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Announcement. (No. 22). The rabbinate of the synagogue district of Wertheim determined by the highest ordinance of March 13, 1827, § I. 14, Government Gazette No. 10, with which a fixed salary of 500 florins, in addition to free apartment and the occupation of the collective bargaining differential is now to be filled for the first time after the requirement mentioned in section II of that ordinance has been met. The eligible applicants are therefore requested to report their requests to this authority within 6 weeks. Karlsruhe, January 27, 1848. Grand Ducal Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden. The Ministerial Commissioner: Fröhlich. Vdt. Mos. Heimerdinger ". From the history of Rabbinate Wertheim. Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de . Retrieved May 25, 2015.