Batelov Jewish Community

Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Batelov

Profane synagogue in Batelov

The first Jewish community in Batelov (German Battelau ), a Moravian minor town in Okres Jihlava in the Vysočina region in the Czech Republic , was established in the late Middle Ages .

history

The first mention of a Jewish community in Battelau comes from the year 1426. The approximately 25 to 30 Jewish families living here were under the protection of the respective landlord . Their houses were grouped around a rectangular square from which several alleys branched off.

Most of the houses of the Jewish families were built around 1795 after being destroyed in a major fire years earlier.

From the middle of the 19th century the Jewish community of Battelau had its own rabbi .

The Jewish community, which had almost 200 members towards the middle of the 19th century, then shrank significantly as a result of emigration. At the beginning of the 1930s it was in the process of dissolution.

In May 1942 the remaining Jewish residents were deported to Theresienstadt and from there they were deported to the extermination camps, where they were murdered.

Community development

year	Jews
around 1750	about 25 families
1846	190 people
1880	134 people (around 6% of the population)
1900	77 people
1930	31 people

synagogue

→ Main article : Synagogue (Batelov)

graveyard

→ Main article : Jewish cemetery (Batelov)

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 edition ).

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