District rabbinate Baiersdorf

The district rabbinate Baiersdorf was established according to the regulations of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 in Baiersdorf , a town in the Central Franconian district of Erlangen-Höchstadt in northern Bavaria .

Since 1866 the district rabbinate of Hagenbach was represented by the rabbi from the district rabbinate Baiersdorf and from 1889 by the rabbi from the district rabbinate Fürth , as was the district rabbinate Baiersdorf from that point on.

After the dissolution of the Baiersdorf Rabbinate in 1896, the Baiersdorf Jewish community belonged to the Fürth 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

• Baiersdorf Jewish community

District rabbi

• Chaim Hirsch Berlin
• until 1848 David Diespecker (d. 1848)
• 1848 to 1888 Wolf Cohn (* July 1812 in Baiersdorf; died January 16, 1888), he graduated from grammar school in Erlangen, then studied in Erlangen and Munich, took over the position of cantor in 1840 and the rabbinate after Rabbi Diespecker's death in 1848 .
• 1889 to 1896 Jakob Neuburger (rabbinate administratively )

Web links

• Baiersdorf Jewish community near Alemannia Judaica