District rabbinate Bamberg

The Bamberg District Rabbinate was established in Bamberg in northern Bavaria in 1826 . The Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 prescribed the formation of district rabbinates in Bavaria and these were created until 1825/26.

In 1907, the Bamberg district rabbinate also took over the Burgebrach and Adelsdorf 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

Associated municipalities from 1826:

• Jewish community Bamberg
• Burgellern Jewish Community
• Buttenheim Jewish community
• Jewish community of Demmelsdorf
• Gunzendorf Jewish community
• Jewish community of Hirschaid
• Jewish community Scheßlitz
• Jewish community of Zeckendorf

Associated municipalities from 1907: plus the municipalities of the district rabbinates of Adelsdorf and Burgebrach (except Aschbach).

1935 affiliated, partially united, religious communities:

• Adelsdorf Jewish community
• Jewish community Bamberg
• Jewish community Demmelsdorf-Scheßlitz
• Jewish community of Ermreuth
• Forchheim Jewish community
• Jewish community Hagenbach-Wannbach (the date of the dissolution of the community is unclear)
• Jewish community of Hirschaid-Buttenheim
• Jewish community of Mühlhausen
• Jewish community Trabelsdorf-Walsdorf
• Jewish community of Zeckendorf

District rabbi

• from 1826 Samson Wolf Rosenfeld (1782–1862), previously district rabbi in Uehlfeld
• 1866 to 1882 Joseph Koback
• 1888 to 1926 Adolf Eckstein (1857–1935)
• 1926 to 1929 Schlomo Friedrich Rülf
• 1930 to 1939 Max Katten

Web links

• Jewish community Bamberg near Alemannia Judaica

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 .
• Eva Groiss-Lau: Jewish cultural property in the country. Synagogues, real estates and immersion baths in Upper Franconia . Edited by Klaus Guth (Landjudentum in Oberfranken, Vol. 2), Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-06142-8 , p. 23 and Fig. 7.