District rabbinate (Bavaria)
The district rabbinates arose in Bavaria by 1825 and divided the Jewish communities into district associations, which were also rabbinate districts.
The edict issued on June 10, 1813 concerning the circumstances of the Jewish co-religionists , also known as the Bavarian Jewish edict , decreed in paragraph 24: Where the Jews are present in a number of at least 50 families in certain districts that correspond to the territorial division of the Reich, they are allowed to form their own church congregation and to have a synagogue, a rabbi and their own burial place in a place where there is a police authority.
Further regulations were enacted by ordinance of May 22, 1825 and based on implementing ordinances of the district governments. For Lower Franconia only by ordinance of December 31, 1839. A total of 48 district rabbinates should arise. The number in brackets in the respective districts: Upper Bavaria (1), Upper Palatinate (4), Upper Franconia (8), Middle Franconia (13), Lower Franconia (6), Swabia (12) and Palatinate (4).
One rabbi at a time headed a district rabbinate, also known as the rabbinical district. The rabbi was responsible for looking after the rural communities and was obliged to visit them on certain occasions. He was required to deliver a minimum number of "sermons" to each Jewish community.
The following district rabbinates arose:
- Adelsdorf
- Altenstadt
- Ansbach (already land rabbinate in the margravial Ansbach time and under Prussian sovereignty )
- Aschaffenburg
- augsburg
- Bad Kissingen
- Baiersdorf
- Bamberg
- Bayreuth
- Bischberg
- Burgebrach
- Burgkunstadt
- Burgpreppach
- Dittenheim
- Fuerth
- Gunzenhausen (already land rabbinate in the margravial-Ansbach time and under Prussian sovereignty )
- Hagenbach
- Ichenhausen
- Warlords
- Niederwerrn
- Oettingen
- regensburg
- Schopfloch
- Schwabach (already chief rabbinate after 1792 in margravial Ansbach time and under Prussian sovereignty )
- Schweinfurt
- Sulzbuerg
- Uehlfeld
- Wallerstein
- Wassertrüdingen (already district rabbinate after 1792 under Prussian rule)
- Welbhaus
- Wurzburg
literature
- More than stones ... Synagogue memorial band Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 .
- Biographical handbook of the rabbis . Part 1: Rabbis of the emancipation period 1781-1871. Saur, Munich 2004 (2 volumes, containing almost 2000 biographies)
- Monika Berthold-Hilpert: The Land and District Rabbinate Schwabach - An overview . In: The Schwabach Rabbinical District . Ergon-Verlag , Würzburg 2009, ( Franconia Judaica , Vol. 4) ISBN 978-3-89913-788-0 , p. 16.