District rabbinate Burgkunstadt

The district rabbinate Burgkunstadt was created according to the regulations of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 around 1825 in Burgkunstadt , a town in the district of Lichtenfels in northern Bavaria .

After the death of the district rabbi Eduard Goitein in 1914 the Distriktsrabbinat Burgkunstadt was in the 1915 Distriktsrabbinat Bayreuth incorporated .

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

• Jewish community Altenkunstadt
• Aschbach Jewish Community (from 1906 to 1914)
• Burgkunstadt Jewish Community
• Ebneth Jewish Community
• Jewish community of Fassoldshof
• Maineck Jewish Community
• Weidnitz Jewish Community

District rabbi

• 1798 to at least 1824 Löb Kips (Leb ben Schmul Kips / Löb Reckendorfer) (* 1756; † 1835)
• 1835 to 1844 Leopold Stein (* 1810; † 1882)
• 1845 to max. 1878 Löw Traub (* around 1810 in Burgpreppach; † 1878 in Burgkunstadt)
• 1880 to 1885 Dr. Siegmund Flaschner (born September 13, 1844 - † September 3, 1914)
• 1886 to 1896 Dr. Joseph Cohn (* December 7, 1850, moved to Eschwege ; † 1948 in Jerusalem)
• 1897 to 1914 Eduard Goitein (born August 26, 1864 - † March 6, 1914)

Web links

• Jewish community Burgkunstadt 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.