Jewish community of Wachbach

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The Jewish community in Wachbach , a district of Bad Mergentheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg , originated in the Middle Ages and existed until the time of National Socialism .

history

According to tradition, there was a Jewish community in Wachbach as early as the 13th century , but this cannot be documented. There is evidence of recordings of Jews in 1495 by the Teutonic Order and at the beginning of the 16th century under the Lords of Adelsheim. In connection with the revolutionary year 1848 there were serious riots in Wachbach. The highest number of Jewish residents in Wachbach was in 1844 at 218, after which there was a continuous decline. The Wachbach Jewish community owned the Wachbach synagogue . Until the early 1930s there was a specialty shop and cattle shop in Wachbach owned by Jewish families. Job advertisements (for example, religion teachers , prayer leaders and slaughterers ) were posted through the Mergentheim district rabbinate , to which the Jewish community of Wachbach was assigned. In 1933 there were still eight Jewish people living in Wachbach. In 1935 the Jewish community of Wachbach was dissolved.

Of the Jewish people who were born in Wachbach or who lived in the village for a long time, the following people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Amalie Friedberger (1868), Klara Guggenheim (1859), Josef Schloßberger (1899), Palma ( Betty, Blümle) Schloßberger (1894), Lena Stern b. Schloßberger (1863), Betty Strauss b. Schönberger (1875), Jette Wertheimer (1879) and Maria (Marie, Marianne) Wertheimer (1874).

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alemannia Judaica: Wachbach (City of Bad Mergentheim, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . online at www.alemannia-judaica.de, accessed on September 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Information based on the lists from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
  3. ↑ Information from the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945.