District rabbinate Wallerstein

The District Rabbinate Wallerstein was established according to the regulations of the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 in Wallerstein , a market in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

In the 19th century, the Wallerstein district rabbinate was responsible for all Jewish communities in Ries in Bavaria . After the number of Jewish community members had declined due to emigration and emigration since the middle of the 19th century, the rabbinical district of Wallerstein was also looked after by the rabbi in Ichenhausen and was no longer occupied.

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, all Jewish communities pleaded against a reoccupation of the Wallerstein rabbinate. Instead, it was decided to temporarily 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

• from 1841 Wolf Rothenheim (* 1801 in Wallerstein)
• 1847 to 1882 David Weißkopf (* 1798 in Gunzenhausen ; d. 1882 in Kleinerdlingen )
• 1882 to 1888 Marx Michael Kohn (d. 1888)

Web links

• Wallerstein Jewish community near Alemannia Judaica
• Land rabbinate Wallerstein