Domažlice Jewish community

The Jewish community in Domažlice (German Taus ), a town in the Okres Domažlice district in the Czech Republic , existed until 1941.

history

There were three Jewish families in Domažlice in the 14th century. They had a cemetery near the Havlovice district, southwest of Domažlice, where there is now an orchard. Since 1541 Jews was staying in Domažlice by a privilege of King Ferdinand I. denied. Jews were only able to resettle in Domažlice under Joseph II .

In the 1860s, several Jewish families from the area moved to Domažlice, which initially formed a religious community. In 1873 an independent Jewish religious community with a prayer hall, elementary school and cemetery was established in Domažlice .

In 1940 there was a first arrest among the Tauser Jews by the fascist German occupiers . In 1942 the remaining Jewish residents of Domažlice were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and from there to the extermination camps in occupied Poland .

After the end of the Second World War, 20 Jews returned to Domažlice, but they did not establish a Jewish community.

Community development

Number of Jews living in Domažlice since 1850:

year	Jews or Jewish families
1850	3 Jewish families
1857	22 Jews
1873	180 Jews
around 1880/90	150 Jews
around 1910	20 families
1930	70 Jews
1942	33 Jews

synagogue

The synagogue in Domažlice was built in the 1880s. A farm building was converted for this purpose. The neighboring baroque house was the seat of the rabbinate . The buildings were sold in 1938 and destroyed between 1939 and 1940.

The synagogue was on the Benešova corner of Komenského . Today (2014) there is a newly built house, marked with the number 12.

Jewish Cemetery

Entrance gate of the Domažlice Jewish Cemetery

→ Main article : Jewish cemetery (Domažlice)

Around 1500 there was a Jewish cemetery southeast of Domažlice near Havlovice.

The Jewish cemetery , which is still in use and is still in use today (2014), has been located on the northern outskirts of Domažlice at ulice Prokopa Velikého ( Prokop-the-Great-Street ) since 1890 .

literature

• Arno Pařík, Jiří Fiedler , Petr Ehl: Old Bohemian and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries. Paseka, 1996, ISBN 80-85192-12-8 .
• Jiří Fiedler: Židovské památky Tachovska, Plánska a Stříbrska. Domažlice. Nakladatelství Českého lesa, ISBN 978-80-86125-81-7 .

Web links

Commons : Domažlice Jewish Cemetery  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Domažlice Jewish community
• Jewish community Domažlice (Czech)

See also

• Jewish cemetery (Domažlice)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ pamatky.kehilaprag.cz ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ zanikleobce.cz
3. ↑ zanikleobce.cz
4. ↑ Jewish-gemeinden.de
5. ↑ Jewish-gemeinden.de
6. ↑ Jewish-gemeinden.de
7. ↑ holocaust.cz ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ zanikleobce.cz
9. ↑ holocaust.cz ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.