District rabbinate Oettingen

The district rabbinate Oettingen was established according to the regulations of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 in Oettingen , a town in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

After 1857 David Weißkopf was appointed official representation for the vacant district rabbinate of Oettingen, which in 1860 led to the merger of the two rabbinates of Wallerstein and Oettingen.

After Marx Michael Kohn's death in 1888, all Jewish communities spoke out against a reoccupation of the Wallerstein rabbinate. Instead, it was decided to join the Ichenhausen district rabbinate under Aron Cohn. Only Hainsfarth turned to the district rabbinate Schwabach under the Orthodox Rabbi Löw Wissmann.

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

After 1860:

• Jewish community of Ederheim
• Jewish community of Hainsfarth
• Harburg Jewish Community
• Jewish community in Kleinerdlingen
• Jewish community Mönchsdeggingen
• Jewish community Mönchsroth
• Jewish community in Nördlingen (since 1871)
• Jewish community of Oettingen
• Steinhart Jewish Community
• Wallerstein Jewish community

District rabbi

• 1807 to 1838 Baruch Löw Steppacher (Rabbinate Verweser )
• 1857 to 1882 David Weißkopf (died 1882)
• 1882 to 1888 Marx Michael Kohn (died 1888)

Web links

• Jewish community of Oettingen near Alemannia Judaica