Jewish community Hilsbach

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The Jewish community in Hilsbach , a district of the city of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district ( Baden-Württemberg ), was founded in the 17th century and existed until 1877.

history

Jewish quarter in Hilsbach. In the place of the barn half right (with a white bordered window) there was once the synagogue

Jews are first mentioned in the village in 1674. In 1772 there were three Jewish families in Hilsbach (Hirsch, Baruch, Salomon), in 1743 five families (Moyses Salomon, Salomon Löw, Löw Herz, Herz Isay and Baruch Herz). Almost all of them lived in poor conditions; the Hilsbach Jewish community was one of the poorest in Baden . The Jewish community in Hilsbach had been part of the Sinsheim district rabbinate since 1827 , and they buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Waibstadt . The Jewish community had a prayer room or a synagogue and a ritual bath ( mikveh ). There was also a room for religious instruction for the children at times.

After the Jewish community in Hilsbach was dissolved in 1877, the remaining Jewish residents belonged to the Jewish community of Weiler (called in 1895), and since 1904 at the latest to the Jewish community of Sinsheim .

National Socialist Persecution

One of the last Jewish families in the area was the family of Nathan Maier and his wife Fanny geb. Wolf. The couple's three sons, Bertold, Emil and Jakob Maier, who were born in Hilsbach, were deported from different cities to the Gurs camp in October 1940 and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 .

Community development

year Parishioners
1772 3 families
1807 6 families
around 1825 46 people
1832 32 people
1857 26 people
1871 18 people
1895 6 persons
1910 1 person

literature

  • Hilsbach. 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 ).
  • 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. 446–447.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved November 17, 2012.