Burgebrach Jewish community

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A Jewish community in Burgebrach was first mentioned in 1451 in a document from Michelsberg Monastery .

It is known from 1548 that a Jew was slain in Burgebrach for unknown reasons. Under the leadership of a foreign painter named Johann Merck, Jewish property was plundered in and around Burgebrach until the gang of teenage boys was arrested by the Vogt von Burgebrach.

For years, Jewish residents had to pay a special fee for building the town hall in 1720. In 1763 there were 36 Jewish residents in the Burgebrach office . In 1773, Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim granted the von Pölnitz auf Aschbach family the right to share rights with the Jews in Burgebrach, Schönbrunn and Stappenbach .

The previously insignificant Jewish community of Burgebrach was able to obtain the seat of a rabbinate on December 11, 1826 because Burgebrach was the seat of a police authority, based on a clause in the Jewish edict of 1813 . The first rabbi was Bear Levi Kunreuther, who emigrated to North America in 1859 .

In 1906 the community was to be dissolved, as only seven Jews were still living in Burgebrach. This was prevented by merging with the Reichmannsdorf community (Schlüsselfeld) .

In 1912 the teacher Grünebaum moved away because there had not been any Israelite children in Burgebrach for two years.

In 1926 the synagogue was sold because it had not been used as a prayer hall for a long time. At that time only two widows and a Jewish family lived in Burgebrach, who emigrated to the USA in 1938 as the last Jewish residents of the town. The ritual bath that the first rabbi had set up on his property was also sold. A garage was later built there.

Burial places

Since the Jews in Burgebrach did not have their own cemetery, they buried their dead in Walsdorf from the middle of the 17th century . Jews from Walsdorf , Bischberg , Trunstadt and Viereth were also buried in this cemetery.

literature

  • Klaus Guth: Jüdische Landgemeinden in Oberfranken 1800−1942 , pages 115–128 ISBN 3-87052-392-1

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