Jewish community Staré Město pod Landštejnem
The Jewish community in Staré Město pod Landštejnem (German Old Town ), a Czech community in Okres Jindřichův Hradec , is said to be one of the oldest Jewish communities in the South Bohemian region . This is also indicated by the Jewish cemetery, the oldest existing gravestone from 1621.
At the beginning of the 19th century, around 20 to 25 Jewish families lived in the old town. From around 1850, more and more Jewish families left the place. In the 1890s, the Jewish community finally dissolved .
Around 1925 only four Jewish families lived in the old town. While the Jewish cemetery still exists today, the synagogue was believed to have been demolished in the late 1930s.
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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 ).
- Franz Wondrak: History of the Jews in the old town near Neubistritz . In: Hugo Gold , The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present, Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brno / Prague 1934, pp. 3–4 ( online ) at the Upper Austria State Library
