District rabbinate Ansbach

The district rabbinate of Ansbach was created according to the regulations of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 in Ansbach , a city in northern Bavaria . The predecessor was an existing rabbinate in the margravial Ansbach period and under Prussian sovereignty .

precursor

In 1759, Margrave Carl Alexander issued a Jewish code for his rule. A chief rabbinate was established in Schwabach, and there were also land rabbis in Ansbach, Crailsheim , Feuchtwangen , Fürth , Gunzenhausen , Mainbernheim and Treuchtlingen , who were responsible for religious affairs. Rabbis and Barnosse regulated the administration of justice between the Jews. The head barnoss had his seat in Ansbach, there were other Barnosse in Feuchtwangen, Gunzenhausen, Mainbernheim, Schwabach , Thalmässing , Uffenheim and Wassertrüdingen . The Oberbarnoss or Judenmeister was the head of the entire Jewish community of the Margraviate of Ansbach, who had official powers in tax matters and at the same time chairman of the Jewish court, he held the position of mayor. Next to him stood the Barnosse in the individual parishes, with corresponding powers. At that time the rabbis were teachers and preachers appointed by the community, as well as judges, who were assisted by assessors in important cases. Furthermore, two cashiers, a land clerk and a country messenger were employed.

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

In the 19th century:

• Jewish community Altenmuhr (from 1845, previously at the Gunzenhausen district rabbinate )
• Jewish community Colmberg
• Cronheim Jewish community
• Jewish community of Egenhausen
• Jewish community Ellingen (after the dissolution of the District Rabbinate Ellingen )
• Jewish community of Ermetzhofen
• Jewish community Feuchtwangen (from 1841 to 1872 part of the district rabbinate Schopfloch )
• Heidenheim Jewish community
• Jochsberg Jewish community
• Jewish community Obernzenn
• Jewish community Roth
• Jewish community Schopfloch ( independent as district rabbinate Schopfloch from 1841 to 1872 )
• Jewish community of Uffenheim (since 1880, previously Welbhausen district rabbinate )
• Weigenheim Jewish Community
• Jewish community Welbhausen (since 1880, previously Welbhausen district rabbinate)
• Wittelshofen Jewish Community (from 1897)

Membership in the district rabbinate has undergone changes over the decades. In 1922 the communities Mönchsroth and Wassertrüdingen came to the Ansbach rabbinate. After the Schwabach district rabbinate was dissolved , the communities of Forth , Hüttenbach , Ottensoos and Schwabach followed in July 1932 . In 1933 a total of 20 communities in the area still belonged to the district rabbinate of Ansbach. (after: alemannia judaica)

District rabbi

• 1793 to 1835 Moses Hochheimer (* 1755 in Veitshöchheim ; died 1835 in Ansbach)
• 1835 to 1841 Jacob Oberdorfer (* 1807 in Wallerstein ; d. 1884 in Oberdorf), rabbinical administrator
• 1841 to 1893 Aaron Bär Grünbaum (* 1812 in Gunzenhausen ; died 1893 in Ansbach)
• 1894 to 1915 Pinchas Kohn (* 1867 in Kleinerdlingen ; died July 12, 1941 in London )
• 1915 to 1917 Chaim Heinrich Cohn (* 1889 in Basel ; died 1966 in London), rabbinical administrator
• 1917 to 1925 David Brader (* 1879 in Ichenhausen )
• 1926 to 1937 Eli Munk (* 1900 in Paris ; died 1980 in New York ).
• 1937 to 1939 Pinchas Kohn (see above)

Web links

• Ansbach Jewish community near Alemannia Judaica

literature

• Feuchtwanger Heimatgeschichte Volume 3: From the history of the Jewish community of Feuchtwangen 1274–1938 by Dietrich Weiß, 1991 (not evaluated)