Jewish community Waibstadt

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A Jewish community in Waibstadt in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg has existed since the 17th century at the latest.

history

In Waibstadt, which belonged to the Principality of Speyer until 1803, Jews were already living in the Middle Ages . The first mention of it comes to us from 1337. During the persecution of Jews during the plague of 1348/49, Jews were also murdered in Waibstadt. From 1625 individual Jews moved in again and at the end of the Thirty Years' War there were three Jewish families living in the city. In 1671 the Jews were expelled and around 1700 two families moved in again. The Jewish cemetery was established as a Jewish association cemetery before 1690 and is the largest Jewish cemetery in Baden .

The community had been part of the Sinsheim district rabbinate since 1827 . The highest number of Jewish residents in Waibstadt was 67 in 1884. Due to emigration and emigration, their number fell sharply in the following decades. In 1937 the community was dissolved, the last members of the community came to the Neckarbischofsheimer community. The synagogue , built in 1847, was used for the last time in 1925 and sold to a private person in 1938, avoiding the destruction during the November pogroms in 1938 . In 1977 the building was demolished.

National Socialist Persecution

In 1933 there were still eight Jewish people living in Waibstadt. The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists nine Jewish citizens born in Waibstadt who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .

Community development

year Parishioners
1825 42 people
1834 44 people
1875 42 people
1884 67 people
1933 8 people

literature

  • Peter Beisel: Jewish traces in our homeland. With special consideration of the situation in Waibstadt . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research . Edited by the Heimatverein Kraichgau . Volume 17, 2002, pp. 97-106.
  • 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. 491–492.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved February 15, 2013.