Jewish community of Walsdorf

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General view of the former synagogue in Walsdorf

A Jewish community in Walsdorf , a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg , has existed since the beginning of the 17th century at the latest.

history

The first written record on the history of the Jews in Walsdorf begins in 1608 with the pawnbroker Menlein Jud . According to this, sources are only available again in the last third of the 17th century that document eight Jewish families in Walsdorf for the year 1672. Due to the rise in prices, there were attacks on Jews in the Bamberg Monastery in 1699 . The Jews who lived scattered across Walsdorf were settled on Schafberg by the Lords of Crailsheim from 1724. In 1792 there were 22 families of Jewish faith in Walsdorf. At the time of the transition to Bavaria in 1804, there were 28 families with around 120 family members. In the middle of the 19th century the community shrank due to the emigration and emigration of Jewish families. Some of them moved to the surrounding cities, others emigrated to America. In 1907 the now small Jewish community united with that of Trabelsdorf . Walsdorf was part of the Burgebrach district rabbinate .

Community development

year Parishioners
1740 12 families
1748 15 families
1764 18 families
1802 25 families
1825 98 people
1840 114 people
1852 83 people
1875 61 people
1880 53 people
1890 41 people
1900 31 people
1910 24 people
1925 17 people
1933 23 people

synagogue

In 1731 the landlord approved the construction of a synagogue , which was built in 1732. It belonged to the Lords of Crailsheim until 1862 , when the Jewish school became the property of the Jewish community.

graveyard

The Jewish cemetery in Walsdorf was probably laid out in the 16th century and was first mentioned in 1628/29. The 70.10 acres large cemetery has a 1742-built Taharahaus . There are two inscription panels in Hebrew script on it, stating that the building was built in 1742 at the expense of Elieser Lippmann and his wife.

National Socialist Persecution

In 1933, 23 Jews were still living in Walsdorf. Due to increasing reprisals and the consequences of the economic boycott , 11 left the place or emigrated in the following years. Seven Jewish residents were in April 1942 to Izbica deported . The only person spared from this deportation , Rosa Karl, died in September 1942 while being transported to Theresienstadt .

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 11 Jewish citizens born in Walsdorf who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .

literature

  • Norbert Haas: Died in Bamberg, buried in Walsdorf. A contribution to the history of the Jewish community Bamberg 1809-1851 , Bamberg 1994.
  • More than stones ... Synagogue memorial ribbon Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 , pp. 214-220.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commemorative Book - Victims of Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Retrieved November 7, 2009.