Jewish community of Gochsheim

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The Jewish community in Gochsheim , a district of the Kraichtal community in the Karlsruhe district ( Baden-Württemberg ), was probably founded in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century and existed until the 1870s.

history

Jews are handed down to Gochsheim for the first time in 1427 and then again in 1524/25. In 1643 Matthäus Merian wrote in his Topographia Sueviae zu Gochsheim: “There are many Jews there”.

In 1769 the highest number of Jewish residents was reached with 67 people. Due to emigration and emigration, the number of Jewish residents fell sharply in the first half of the 19th century. That is why the Jews still living in Gochsheim were assigned to the Jewish community in Bauerbach . In 1826 there were still 27 Jewish residents, 17 in 1864 and five in 1871. In 1875 there were no longer any Jews living in Gochsheim.

Former synagogue, back view

synagogue

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 ).
  • Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial Book of the Synagogues in Germany . Volume 4), pp. 261-262.

Web links

Commons : Synagoge (Gochsheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographia Sueviae , Frankfurt am Main 1643, p. 83