Jewish community of Eubigheim

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The Jewish community in Eubigheim , a district of Ahorn in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg , was founded in the 17th century and existed until the time of National Socialism .

history

Eubigheim Jewish cemetery

A Jewish community existed in Eubigheim from the 17th century until 1938. For the first time in 1664 Jews were named locally. When the bishops of Würzburg expelled Jewish families in the 17th and 18th centuries, several of them were accepted into Eubigheim. As early as 1686, a "Judengasse" was called, today's Wiesenweg. The highest number of Jewish residents was in Eubigheim around 1885 with 96 people, after which a continuous decline began due to emigration and emigration. The Eubigheim Jewish community owned the Eubigheim synagogue , a school and a ritual bath . The dead of the community were first buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bödigheim . Around 1850, a separate cemetery was laid out in Gewann Vierzehnmorgen . The community had its own religion teacher who was also active as prayer leader and schochet . In 1827 the Jewish community of Eubigheim was assigned to the Merchingen district rabbinate , which had been represented by the rabbi in Mosbach since the end of the 19th century. In 1933 there were still 28 Jewish people living in Eubigheim. It was not until after the events of the November pogrom in 1938 that most of the Jewish residents left the place. On January 1, 1939, there were still five Jewish residents in Eubigheim, and no more Jewish residents on February 28, 1939. Of the Jewish people who were born in Eubigheim or who lived in Eubigheim for a long time, five people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Meta Frank b. Reich (1881), Herta Reich (1915), Leopoldine Reich (1887), Melly Reich (1911) and Abraham Strauss (1881).

See also

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

Commons : Jüdische Gemeinde Eubigheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alemannia Judaica: Eubigheim (Untereubigheim district, Ahorn municipality, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information based on the lists from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
  3. ↑ Information from the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945.