Jewish community of Königshofen (Lauda-Königshofen)

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The Jewish community in Königshofen , today a district of Lauda-Königshofen in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg , originated in the 17th century and existed until the beginning of the 20th century.

history

A Jewish community existed in Königshofen from the 17th century until its dissolution in 1906. The Jewish community of Königshofen owned the Königshofen synagogue and religious instruction was given to Jewish children. The dead of the Jewish community in Königshofen were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Unterbalbach . A separate religion teacher was employed, who was also active as a prayer leader and probably also as a shochet . Since 1832 the Jewish community of Königshofen has belonged to the Wertheim district rabbinate (possibly initially to the Merchingen district rabbinate , as adverts for a teaching position suggest).

When the Jewish community was dissolved on March 31, 1906, the Jews still living in Königshofen were assigned to the Jewish community of Tauberbischofsheim .

Of the Jewish people who were born in Königshofen or who lived there for a long time, the following people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Johanna Eisemann geb. Hofmann (1872, later residing in Gailingen), Joseph Herbst (1864, later residing in Heidelberg and Mannheim), Gertrud Köhler b. Hofmann (1859, later resident in Frankfurt), Rosalie Reichenbach b. Einstetter (1870, later residing in Cologne), Ma (r) x Rothschild (born 1885 in Königshofen, later residing in Bad Mergentheim, then Marktbreit).

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 Alemannia Judaica: Königshofen (town of Lauda-Königshofen, Main-Tauber district) / Jewish history / prayer room / synagogue . Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
  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.