Jewish community of Gissigheim

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Remnants of the former synagogue in Gissigheim

The Jewish community in Gissigheim existed from 16./17. Century to 1894.

history

Jewish cemetery in Gissigheim

In 1612 Jews from Gissigheim who visited the market in Tauberbischofsheim were named for the first time.

The Gissigheim Jewish community owned the Gissigheim synagogue , a school, a ritual bath and the Gissigheim Jewish cemetery . From around 1675 to 1726, the residents of the Jewish community in Königheim visited the synagogue in the neighboring Gissigheim community. The Jewish community of Gissigheim was assigned to the Wertheim district rabbinate.

In the 19th century, a separate religion teacher was employed, who was also active as a prayer leader and schochet . A new synagogue was built in 1837 (location Schlossstrasse 27, back building). The Jewish families of Gissigheim lived mainly from trading in local products and goods of all kinds, some of them were butchers. In World War Two Gissigheimer Jews died. The number of Jewish residents of Gissigheim developed as follows in the 19th century: 1825 (98 Jewish residents), 1865 (120 people), 1875 (36), 1900 (four left), and in 1927 Gissigheim became the last Jewish citizen in the Jewish cemetery Gissigheim buried. After 1850, Gissigheim Jews began to emigrate to North America, in some cases they also emigrated to other cities. After the Gissigheim synagogue was closed in 1894, the remaining Jewish residents visited the synagogue of the Jewish community in Königheim.

Of the Jewish people who were born in Gissigheim or who lived in Gissigheim for a long time, the following people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Karoline David geb. Spiegel (1859), Julie Mayer b. Spiegel (1867), Helene Oppenheimer b. Stern (1878), Jette Rothstein b. Stern (1872), Heinrich Schleedorn (1864), Sigmund Stern (1879).

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 : Gissigheim Jewish Community  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Alemannia Judaica: Gissigheim (City of Königheim, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer room / synagogue . Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
  2. ^ Alemannia Judaica: Königheim (Main-Tauber-Kreis) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Information based on the lists from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
  4. ↑ Information from "Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945".