Jewish community of Stebbach

The development of the Jewish community of Stebbach in Stebbach , today part of the community of Gemmingen in Baden-Württemberg , goes back to the beginning of the 18th century.

history

When all Jews in the Grand Duchy of Baden had to take hereditary family names in 1809, the 13 heads of the Stebbach Jews took the following names: Bär (3), Eppinger (1), Eisenmann (4), Kahn (1), Kaufmann (1), Münzesheimer ( 1) and Wolf (2). The name Eisenmann is later found in the form Eisemann.

The 18th century synagogue of the Jewish community was renovated and expanded in 1829. The Jews of Stebbach lived mainly from the cattle trade. In 1883 the Jewish innkeeper ( Zum Löwen ) Karl Bär applied for the dissolution of the Jewish community because the sufficient number ( minyan ) of men to hold the service was no longer available. Since the Stebbach Synagogue Council and the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden were against the dissolution, the dissolution only happened with the resolution of the Baden government on January 23, 1915.

National Socialist Persecution

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

Community development

year	Parishioners
1809	13 families
1825	75 people
1855	12 families
1875	42 people
1883	7 families
1900	10 people

Personalities

• Michael Kahn (* May 1798 in Stebbach ?; † July 19, 1861 in Mannheim) was the founder of a bed spring factory, which developed into a large production company in Mannheim.
• Bernhard Kahn (born May 23, 1827 in Stebbach ; † March 8, 1905 in Heidelberg ), son of Michael Kahn, entrepreneur and banker in Mannheim
• Jonas Eisinger (* September 15, 1844; † 4 June 1914 in Stebbach), Rat writer , in 1912 an honorary citizen of Stebbach. However, his honorary citizenship was revoked in 1936 because of his Jewish faith.

Burials

Before the Jewish cemetery in Eppingen was completed in 1818/19, the Stebbach Jews had their burial at the Jewish cemetery in Heinsheim , the Jewish cemetery in Oberöwisheim or the Jewish cemetery in Waibstadt . From 1825 a total of 53 burials from Stebbach took place in the Jewish cemetery in Eppingen. The last person to be buried in this Jewish cemetery is Rosa Eisemann from Stebbach, who died on March 25, 1940 (grave no. 667).

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. 221–224, 282–288 and 291–295. ( Stebbacher Liederkranz )
• Ralf Bischoff and Reinhard Hauke ​​(eds.): The Jewish cemetery in Eppingen. A documentation . 2nd Edition. Heimatfreunde Eppingen , Eppingen 1996 ( Around the Ottilienberg. Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and its surroundings . Volume 5).
• Wolfgang Ehret: The Jewish Kahn family from Stebbach - manufacturers, revolutionaries, bankers . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 17, 2002, pp. 231–256.
• 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. 145–146.

Web links

• The Jewish Community (accessed October 28, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved October 29, 2009.
2. ↑ Angerbauer / Frank 1986, pp. 299-302.