Jewish community of Siegelsbach

A Jewish community in Siegelsbach in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg had existed since the beginning of the 18th century. The highest membership of the Jewish community in 1848 was about 104 people.

history

In Siegelsbach, which belonged to the Electoral Palatinate until 1803, Jews are first mentioned around 1720. The place was from 1698 to the Wiser invested and first went in 1803 to the Prince of Leiningen and 1806 in Baden . The synagogue , built in 1804, was expanded in 1857: the teacher's apartment was enlarged and the mikveh redesigned. The number of Jewish residents fell in the second half of the 19th century, mainly due to emigration , and in 1929 the dilapidated synagogue was sold to private individuals who had it demolished around 1950. The Siegelbach Jews buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Heinsheim .

The Jewish citizen Jacob Grötzinger judged in 1864 a. a. In parts of the Siegelsbach Castle, a soap boiler was built , from which the Süddeutsche Öl- und Fettwarenfabrik developed, which in 1898 built a larger production facility. Customers throughout Germany were supplied from Siegelsbach, including the Grand Ducal Baden State Railway .

National Socialist Persecution

In 1933, nine Jews were still living in Siegelsbach, six of whom emigrated to the USA and three died at their place of residence by 1939.

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 14 Jewish citizens born in Siegelsbach who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .

Common names

When all Jews in the Grand Duchy of Baden had to adopt hereditary family names in 1809, the 11 heads of the Siegelsbach Jews took the following names: Apfel (2), Stern (2), Bär (1), Faist (1), Grötzinger and Gretzinger (1) , Grün (1), Kuhn (1), Schlesinger (1) and Waibstadter (1).

Community development

year	Parishioners
1775	28 people
1801	63 people
1825	77 people
1848	104 people
1875	67 people
1900	29 people

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer , Hans Georg Frank: Jewish communities in the district and city of Heilbronn. History, fates, documents . Heilbronn district, Heilbronn 1986 ( series of publications by the Heilbronn district . Volume 1), pp. 209–212.
• 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 Synagogues in Germany . Volume 4), pp. 438–440.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved October 29, 2009.