Biberach Jewish community

A Jewish community in Biberach (today a district of Heilbronn ) only existed temporarily after the Thirty Years' War. The first settlement of Jews after 1650 goes back to the French Major General Thomas von Klug, who owned the place at that time. The expulsion of the Jews was initiated from 1726 by the Teutonic Order as a later local authority.

history

After Biberach had been attacked, looted and burned down several times during the Thirty Years War, among other things in the area around the Battle of Wimpfen in 1622, the village was completely depopulated in 1637. The city of Wimpfen sold the place in 1650 to the French major general Thomas von Klug, who also took in Jews there. After the Teutonic Order acquired the place in 1681 , six Jewish families were counted in 1685. In the Palatinate War of Succession in 1688 the place was destroyed again, whereby the Jews, among whom two wealthy were previously mentioned, as well as the rest of the population lost almost all of their property. In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, there were again acts of war around Biberach, with a Biberach Jew being abducted.

When the butchers' guild was established in 1710, the population stood up for the Jews, as their butchers had better cared for them during the years of need they had suffered. The financial circumstances of the Biberach Jews remained desolate, so that the Teutonic Order canceled the protection in 1726/27 and expelled the Jews in 1728. In 1739 a Jew was violently expelled from the village. The Order refused to accept Jews again in 1743 because there were no more Jews living in Biberach. After that no more Jewish community was formed there.

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer , Hans Georg Frank: Jewish communities in the district and city of Heilbronn. History, fates, documents . District of Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1986 ( series of publications of the district of Heilbronn . Volume 1)