Jewish community of Dertingen

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The Jewish community in Dertingen , a district of Wertheim , existed from the 17th century to 1925.

history

The testimonies of local Jewish families go back to the 17th century. The oldest gravestone in the Jewish cemetery in Wertheim, which was set for a Dertingen Jew, dates from 1699. The population of Dertingen Jews developed as follows: 1825 (46 Jewish inhabitants in Dertingen, 5.6% of 825 inhabitants), 1850 ( 54 Jewish people), 1925 (eight Jewish families left), 1933 (only one Schwarzschild family lived there).

The Jewish community of Dertingen maintained the Dertingen synagogue , a ritual bath and a Jewish slaughterhouse. The dead of the Dertinger community were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Wertheim . The Jewish community in Dertingen temporarily employed a teacher of his own to take care of religious tasks, and he also worked as a cantor. In 1827 the community was assigned to the Tauberbischofsheim rabbinical district, later to the Wertheim district rabbinate .

In 1925 the Jewish community of Dertingen was dissolved because the Jewish population was no longer sufficient for a regular minyan in the synagogue . The remaining Jewish families oriented themselves towards Wertheim.

Of the Jewish people who were born in Dertingen or who lived in Dertingen for a long time, the following people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Hilda Hammel b. Fleischmann (1897), Adolf Schwarzschild (1882), Karoline (Lina) Schwarzschild (1879), Sophie Schwarzschild b. Brückheimer (1881).

literature

  • Dertingen. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Alemannia Judaica: Dertingen (city of Wertheim, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer room / synagogue . Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information based on the lists from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
  3. ↑ Information from “Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945”.