Redwitz District Rabbinate

The Redwitz District Rabbinate was established in accordance with the provisions of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 in Redwitz an der Rodach , a municipality in the Lichtenfels district in northern Bavaria .

The district rabbinate existed from November 14, 1825 to May 27, 1862.

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 of Friesen
• Jewish community Horb am Main (1862 to the district rabbinate Burgkunstadt )
• Jewish community of Kronach
• Jewish community Küps
• Lichtenfels Jewish community
• Mistelfeld Jewish community
• Mitwitz Jewish community
• Jewish community of Oberlangenstadt
• Redwitz Jewish Community

District rabbi

• 1827 to 1862 Moses Gutmann (died February 1, 1862)

Web links

• Jewish community of Redwitz an der Rodach 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.