Impfingen Jewish Community

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The Jewish community in Impfingen existed from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

history

The formation of the Jewish community in Impfingen goes back to the 16th century. In a document in Wenkheim Mose Jud von Impfingen is mentioned in 1590. In 1591/92 the two Jews were named Berlin and Mosse, and from 1704 to 1717 Löw, Mayer and Sambsel.

The number of Jewish community members in Impfingen developed as follows in the 19th and 20th centuries: 1826 (37 Jewish residents), 1833 (44), 1838 (52), 1841 (57, highest number), 1864 (36), 1871 (30), 1875 (41), 1880 (41), 1885 (37), 1990 (24), 1895 (25), 1900 (18), 1905 (11), 1910 (14), 1933 (3).

Plaque in the town hall of Tauberbischofsheim: “In memory of the Jewish citizens expelled and murdered by injustice and tyranny” of the city from 1933 to 1945

The Impfingen Jewish community owned the Impfingen synagogue , a Jewish school and a ritual bath . A separate teacher was employed to take care of religious tasks for the community. This was at the same time active as lead singer and schochet . The community's dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Wenkheim . In 1827 the Jewish community in Impfingen was assigned to the Wertheim district rabbinate. From 1887 the Jewish community Impfingen was assigned as a branch (Filialgemeinde) of the Jewish community Hochhausen ; As early as 1911, however, the Jewish community of Hochhausen was again mentioned as a branch of the Jewish community of Wenkheim . In June 1913 the Impfingen Jewish community was dissolved. In 1933 three Jewish people were still living in the area. Before 1938 two of them died: the Jew Ida Ehrlich, who ran a grocery store in Impfingen, and Sophie Heumann. The third remaining Jew, Henriette Heimann, was deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940, where she subsequently died.

Of the Jewish people who were born in Impfingen or who lived there for a long time, the following five people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Adolf Gutmann (born 1878), Josef Gutmann (born 1908), Henriette Heimann ( born 1875), Sanchen Heimann b. Heumann (born 1880) and Emma Kuttner born. Gutmann (born 1874).

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Alemannia Judaica: Impfingen (city of Tauberbischofsheim, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer room / synagogue . online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
  2. ^ Alemannia Judaica: Hochhausen (city of Tauberbischofsheim, Main-Tauber district) 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 the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945".