Jewish community of Menzingen
The Jewish community in Menzingen , a district of the Kraichtal community in the Karlsruhe district ( Baden-Württemberg ), was founded in the 16th century and existed until 1921.
history
Jews are first mentioned in Menzingen in 1546. After the emigration during the Thirty Years War , some families came back. The Jewish community had a synagogue , a religious school and a ritual bath ( mikveh ). The dead of the Jewish community were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Oberöwisheim . The Jewish community had employed a teacher who was both a prayer leader and a shochet . The teacher Eisenberger is mentioned in 1903, he was possibly the last teacher in the community. Since 1827 the Jewish community Menzingen belonged to the district rabbinate Bretten . It was officially dissolved on December 7, 1921.
time of the nationalsocialism
Until after 1933 Josef Stiefel owned a grocery and manufactured goods store at Heilbronner Strasse 19. In 1938 he emigrated with his family to the USA after he had been interned in the Dachau concentration camp for a few days in connection with the November pogrom in 1938 .
The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 31 Jewish citizens born in Menzingen who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .
Community development
year | Parishioners | |
---|---|---|
1800 | 74 | |
1825 | 78 | |
1836 | 89 | |
1838 | 98 | |
around 1864 | 116 | |
1871 | 94 | |
1880 | 67 | |
1890 | 84 | |
1900 | 73 | |
1905 | 40 | |
1910 | 19th | |
1925 | 6th | |
1933 | 7th |
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 edition ).
- 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. 262-263.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved February 25, 2013.