Jewish community Michelfeld

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The Jewish community Michelfeld in Michelfeld , a district of the municipality of Angelbachtal in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was probably built in the 16th century.

history

The Jewish community experienced its heyday in the 19th century when it owned a synagogue , a Jewish cemetery and a Jewish elementary school . A teacher was employed who was both a prayer leader and a schochet . The Jewish community of Michelfeld had belonged to the Bruchsal district rabbinate since 1828 .

The Jews earned their livelihood by trading cattle, local products and textiles. In 1808 Zacharias Oppenheimer built a woolen cloth factory (later: Wolltuchfabrik Gebr. Oppenheimer ). In 1814 a mechanical spinning and fulling mill was built, the factory employed 60 to 70 people.

In 1935 only the Lang and Strauss families lived on site. After the official dissolution of the community on November 18, 1935, the Michelfelder Jews were assigned to the Jewish community of Eichtersheim .

National Socialist Persecution

In 1933 there were still five Jewish people living in Michelfeld, who were deported in October 1940 as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign .

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists seven Jewish citizens born in Michelfeld who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .

Community development

year Parishioners
1807 125 people
1825 172 people
1839 242 people
1871 167 people
1875 144 people
1887 134 people
1900 54 people
1910 22 people
1933 5 people

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 ).
  • 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. 11-13.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commemorative Book - Victims of Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Retrieved January 14, 2012.