Archshofen Jewish community

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The Jewish community in Archshofen , a district of Creglingen , existed from the end of the 17th century until 1941/42.

history

Synagogue in Archshofen (1932)

A Jewish community in Archshofen is known from the end of the 17th century. For the first time, 1696 Jews are named in Archshofen. Archshofen had over 100 local Jews around 1900 who owned their own Jewish school, the Archshofen synagogue and a ritual bath . A religious teacher was employed in the community, who was also active as a prayer leader and schochet . The community belonged to the district rabbinate Mergentheim . The deceased relatives were buried in the Jewish cemetery Creglingen , partly also in the Jewish cemetery Niederstetten . Possibly there was also its own cemetery in earlier centuries, as two fields up south of Archshofen are called "Judenkirchhof". In 1933, 23 Jewish people were still living in Archshofen. The last five Jewish residents of Archshofen were deported to the Riga-Kaiserwald and Theresienstadt concentration camps in 1941 and 1942 . Of the Jewish people who were born in Archshofen or who lived in the town for a longer period of time, the following 26 people can be shown to have died during the Nazi era : Ruth Frank b. Güthermann (1913), Selma Gerstle b. Löwenthal (1874), Malchen Goldschmidt b. Rosenheimer (1888), Sophie Gottlieb b. Güthermann (1864), Hermann Güthermann (1870), Klara Güthermann b. Friedmann (1881), Lene Güthermann (1866), Siegfried Güthermann (1874), Meta Kahn (1886), Lina Kaufmann b. Löwenthal (1872), Lippmann Kohn (1885), Moritz Friedrich Kohn (1880), Rosa Kohn b. Lindauer (1898), Betty Löwenthal b. Stadecker (1876), Gretchen Löwenthal b. Lehmann (1870), Ricka Mayer b. Levi (1862), Gretchen Neckarsulmer b. Kohn (1883), Emil Oberndörfer (1877), Michael Oberndörfer (1877), Regina Oberndörfer b. Kahn (1883), Sophie Pfeiffer b. Kahn (1878), Max Rosenheimer (1907), Vera Scheidt b. Löwenthal (1875), Rosa Schwab b. Rosenheimer (1878), Irma Schwarz b. Oberndörfer (1900) and Therese Westheimer born. Rosenheimer (1875).

The synagogue in Archshofen was used from 1952 as an equipment room for the fire brigade and as a classroom for the lower class. Since 1985, after renewed renovation, the synagogue has been owned by the small animal breeding association and is used as an exhibition room and clubhouse. A memorial plaque next to the entrance door indicates the Jewish past.

See also

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).

Web links

Commons : Archshofen Jewish Community  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alemannia Judaica: Archshofen with Craintal and Waldmannshofen (City of Creglingen, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer room / synagogue . Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information based on the lists from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
  3. ↑ Information from the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945.