District rabbinate Altenstadt

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The Altenstadt district rabbinate was established in accordance with the regulations of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 in Altenstadt , a town in the Swabian district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria .

The Jewish community in Altenstadt had had its own rabbi for a long time and in 1834 comprised 403 people, around 50% of the local population. The number of parishioners fell due to emigration and emigration, and after the death of Rabbi Emanuel Schwab, the district rabbinate was dissolved in 1870. The two Jewish communities were subordinated to the Augsburg district rabbinate .

tasks

The duties included advising on school matters, managing foundations and distributing alms . To finance the district rabbinates, levies were paid by the individual Jewish communities.

District rabbinate congregations

District rabbi

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

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