Jewish community of Kappel
The Jewish community Kappel existed between the years 1793 and 1873 in Kappel , a district in what is now Bad Buchau in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia .
history
As early as the Middle Ages , Jews lived in the territory of the free-world Buchau women's monastery . In 1793 the monastery, under her abbess Maria Maximiliana Esther von Stadion zu Tannhausen and Warthausen, made it possible for 12 Jewish families to settle in Kappel. The Jewish residential area was between today's Kirchstrasse, Riedlinger Strasse and the Burren. In 1802 the community's small synagogue was inaugurated in the presence of the princess . The dead of the community were buried in the cemetery (see Jewish cemetery Bad Buchau ) of the neighboring, one kilometer away, Jewish community of Buchau , to which there were close friends. The Kappl Jews had their own ritual bath ( mikveh ) and a school.
As early as 1850 there was major emigration in the community after it reached its peak in 1845 with 33 families and 163 people. In 1867 the school in Kappel was closed and the school building torn down. The last service in the synagogue took place in 1873. The Kappl Jews lived in poor conditions because they had no access to the guilds.
Buildings
- Kappel synagogue
- Jewish school
Teachers and rabbis
The rabbis of the Buchau Jewish community also looked after the synagogue in the Kappel Jewish community. The following teachers taught at the Jewish school:
- Leopold Hofheimer
- Jacob Levi
- Nathanael Forchheimer
Web links
- History of the Jewish community in Kappel near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish community Kappel (see register on the left)
