Jewish community of Babstadt

A Jewish community in Babstadt , a district of Bad Rappenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg, has existed since the beginning of the 18th century at the latest, according to evidence of individual Jews. The community existed until the end of the 19th century.

history

After frequent changes of ownership, Babstadt passed to the Lords of Gemmingen in 1732 . In the absence of surviving sources , it cannot be said which local rule first accepted Jews. In a list of residents from 1717, two Jews are named, and others subsequently settled in the village, so that in 1722 several Jewish families with a total of 21 people are counted. When local rule passed to the Lords of Gemmingen in 1732, the following heads of family were named: David Hirsch, Marx Hirsch, Alexander Levi, Joseph Levi and Marx Levi. They traded in salt, groceries and spices, and the poorer traded in stockings, furs and other small goods, which they sold as peddlers . The Babstadt Jewish community always remained small, because in the surrounding towns of the Kraichgau there were relatively many Jewish communities due to its territorial fragmentation. A prayer hall is mentioned around 1740, but the Babstadter Jews will mainly have shared the facilities of the neighboring communities in Obergimpern and Rappenau . In 1826 there were three Jewish families living in the area who buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Heinsheim . In 1827 the community was assigned to the district rabbinate Sinsheim . In 1864, 11 Jews were still counted at the site, and around 1900 there were no more Jews living in Babstatt due to emigration and emigration.

National Socialist Persecution

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists a Jewish citizen born in Babstadt, who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime . Frieda Loeb b. Hamburger, born on June 16, 1869 in Babstadt, was deported on October 22, 1940 (called Wagner-Bürckel-Aktion ) from her place of residence in Bad Dürkheim to the Gurs internment camp . Her further fate is unknown.

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer , Hans Georg Frank: Jewish communities in the district and city of Heilbronn. History, fates, documents . Heilbronn district, Heilbronn 1986 ( series of publications of the Heilbronn district . Volume 1), pp. 25–26.
• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 , p. 29 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).

Web links

• To the Jewish community of Babstadt near Alemannia Judaica

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved October 31, 2012.