Jewish community of Zeckendorf

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Memorial stone for murdered Jewish citizens from Zeckendorf, Demmelsdorf and Scheßlitz

A Jewish community in Zeckendorf , a district of the city ​​of Scheßlitz in the Bamberg district in northern Bavaria , has existed since the end of the 16th century at the latest.

history

The first documented mention of the Jewish community in ticks village is from 1586. The Jews were protected Jews of langheim abbey and the barons of Künsberg .

Since the Jewish community in Zeckendorf was very large, the seat of the state rabbinate for the Bamberg Monastery was relocated from Bamberg to Zeckendorf in 1644 . The first regional rabbi in Zeckendorf was David Mosche Halevi from 1658 to 1665. The Jewish community had belonged to the Bamberg district rabbinate since 1826 .

The Jewish community of Zeckendorf owned a synagogue , a school, a ritual bath ( mikveh ) and, together with the Jewish community of Demmelsdorf , a cemetery . A religion teacher was employed who was also a prayer leader and slaughterer . The Jewish families lived mainly from cattle and other trade. In the middle of the 19th century they also exercised the following trades: weaver , tailor , shoemaker and butcher .

Community development

year Parishioners
1658 30 families
1715 12 families
1810 134 people or 48.6% of 276 inhabitants
1837 166 people or 58.2% of 285 inhabitants
1852 133 people or 43.6% of 305 inhabitants
1867 79 people
1875 52 people or 18.8% of 277 inhabitants
1900 50 people or 17.7% of 282 inhabitants
1910 34 people
1933 22 people or 9.4% of 235 inhabitants
1939 18 people

synagogue

A prayer room had been located on the property provided by Langheim Abbey since 1660. In 1723 the construction of a synagogue began, based on the model of the synagogue in Bamberg . In 1742 this synagogue burned down and a new one was built elsewhere.

In November 1936 the windows of the synagogue were broken down by the children of the village. During the November pogrom in 1938 , the interior of the synagogue was destroyed by SA men and burned in a field. In 1939 the synagogue was demolished on the instructions of the district administrator and a garden was created in its place.

National Socialist Persecution

Few Jewish citizens of Zeckendorf decided after 1933 to emigrate . On April 25, 1942, the last were the izbica ghetto deported .

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 26 Jewish citizens born in Zeckendorf who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .

literature

  • Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, pp. 225-226, ISBN 3-87052-393-X .
  • 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. 221-227.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved March 4, 2010.