Jewish community of Menzingen

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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

  1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved February 25, 2013.