Jewish community of Rexingen
A Jewish community in Rexingen , a district of Horb am Neckar in the Freudenstadt district in northern Baden-Württemberg , had existed since the 17th century. The Jewish community existed until 1942.
history
Until 1803 Rexingen belonged to the Order of St. John , which accepted Jews in the village as protection Jews in return for annual payments . Jewish families have settled down since the Thirty Years War .
The Jewish community belonged to the Mühringen District Rabbinate until 1911 , which was moved to Horb in 1914. The community had a synagogue , a ritual bath ( mikveh ) and a cemetery . The Rexingen Jewish cemetery was laid out in the second half of the 18th century and today has almost a thousand tombstones .
The names of the 15 Jewish fallen in World War I can be found on a war memorial in the council chamber of the town hall. Josef Zürndorfer , a fighter pilot in the First World War, is among the fallen . The memorial plaques preserved from the synagogue are kept on the ground floor of the former synagogue building, which is now the Protestant church.
Community development
| year | Parishioners |
|---|---|
| 1846 | 427 people |
| 1885 | 425 people |
| 1933 | 217 people |
National Socialist Persecution
Most Jewish families lived from the cattle trade or were butchers, innkeepers and general store owners. (...) As a result of the persecution and murder of Jews during the Nazi era, at least 70 of the 217 Jewish residents still living in Rexingen in 1933 were killed. When some of its members emigrated in 1938, the congregation was re-established in the Israeli settlement of Shavei Zion north of Akko . (from: Alemannia Judaica )
The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 100 (!) Jewish citizens born in Rexingen who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .
literature
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 520–522, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4)
- Franz Quarthal (Ed.): Between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb. The land on the upper Neckar . Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1984, ISBN 3-7995-4034-2 (publication by the Alemannic Institute Freiburg; 52).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved January 8, 2010.
Dettensee | Horb am Neckar | Mills | Mühringen | Nordstetten | Rexingen