Jewish community of Bauerbach

The Jewish community in Bauerbach , a district of the city of Bretten in the district of Karlsruhe ( Baden-Württemberg ), was founded in the 18th century and existed until 1894.

history

In 1714 Jews were first mentioned in Bauerbach. Their number grew in the 19th century and reached their highest number around 1825 at 67 and around 1871 at 65. As a result of emigration and emigration, the number of Jewish residents in Bauerbach quickly declined. In 1880 there were 19 Jewish residents, in 1895 there were 12, around 1900 none were counted.

The Jewish community owned a house with a prayer room, a Jewish school and a ritual bath ( mikveh ). The dead of the Jewish community of Bauerbach were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Flehingen . Since 1827 the Jewish community belonged to the district rabbinate Bretten . In the first half of the 19th century the Jews in Gochsheim also belonged to the Jewish community of Bauerbach. The Bauerbach Jews lived mainly from the cattle trade, several of them were butchers.

After the dissolution of the Jewish community in Bauerbach in 1894, the last Jews still living in Bauerbach were assigned to the Jewish community in Flehingen .

National Socialist Persecution

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists nine members of the Wertheimer family from Bauerbach who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime (not to be confused with the town of Bauerbach in Thuringia).

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

• The Jewish community of Bauerbach near Alemannia Judaica

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved November 14, 2012.