Jewish Church

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Rock arch Jewish church

The Jewish Church is a rock arch near Tiefenbach in the Oberstdorf market in Oberallgäu , which has been a natural monument since June 2007 . The gate is about 15 meters wide and 5 meters high. The rock arch is one to two meters wide and closed for inspections. It can be found near the Breitachklamm on the slope of the Ochsenberg at 1060  m .

Surname

There is no clarity about the origin of the idiosyncratic name. However, there are a number of publications that attempt to interpret the name.

According to Barbara Rösch, toponyms with the term “Jew” in their name were established in the course of the 19th century . They contained “less statements about an actual historical situation than about the mentality and attitude of the non-Jewish namesake”; not infrequently they demonstrated a “defamation character”. This applies “also to the corridor of the Jewish church of Tiefenbach in the Allgäu Alps as an explanation. The “strange rock formation” there resembles a temple arch, although a temple was previously commonly equated with the Jewish church ”.

In the church and the Jewish church
in Sütterlin script in comparison

According to Paul Schwendinger, the stone formation is said to have originally been popularly called “In der Kirche”, but the name Jewish Church was later developed from this only through inaccurate writing (possibly in Sütterlin script ) .

The nationalist political-anthropological monthly saw 1919 as the actual namesake of rock gate Jewish church , the sound related Germanic tribes of Teutenherberg and Jutes , who during the Great Migration had moved through Central Europe.

geology

View from the Jewish Church

The Jewish Church is an unusual variant of the collapse sinkhole shape . The special features are the natural limestone bridge , which is banked subhorizontally , as well as the lateral hollow form, which is open and accessible from below. The slightly convex limestone arch spans the hollow shape, which is oval in plan, on its long side and lies on the edge of a long steep slope of the Ochsenberg .

Since collapse dolines are created by the collapse of a cave roof, it can be assumed that the Jewish church is a piece of the cave roof that has been preserved. The side access was presumably only created later by denudative slope removal.

The natural bridge has been designated as an important and valuable geotope (geotope number: 780A025) by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment since June 2007 . In 2008, the trees in front of the arch were felled as they blocked the view.

Web links

Commons : Judenkirche  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Rösch: Der Judenweg: Jewish history and cultural history from the point of view of field name research. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 3-64756-998-4 , p. 129.
  2. ↑ Paul Schwendinger: Count Christoff von Vojkffy way and the Jewish church in Oberstdorf / Tiefenbach. In: The beautiful Allgäu. 1984, pp. 10-11. Quoted in:
    Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia. Volume 75, Historischer Verein für Schwaben, Verlag Bücher Seitz, 1981, p. 187.
    Alex Rössle: The Jewish Church near Tiefenbach and the Graf-Vojkffy-Weg. May 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Walter Jung: Ideological requirements, contents and goals of foreign policy programs and propaganda in the German national movement in the early years of the Weimar Republic - The example of the German national protection and defensive association. In: Georg-August-Universität , Göttingen 2000, p. 24.
  4. ↑ Political-anthropological monthly for practical politics: for political education and upbringing on a biological basis . Volume 17, Politisch-Anthropologischer Verlag, 1919, p. 333.
  5. ↑ a b Hellmut Völk, Andreas Piekniewski, Iris Lippert: Geomorphology of the lower Breitach valley near Oberstdorf. With a special consideration of the creation of the Breitachklamm . In: Vorarlberger Naturschau . No. 14 . Dornbirn 2004, p. 50 ( online [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Heinz Groth, Dieter Seibert: Allgäu Alps: Area guide for hikers and mountaineers . Bergverlag Rother GmbH, ISBN 978-3-7633-3647-0 , p. 54 .
  7. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotope Judenkirche NE von Tiefenbach (accessed on October 8, 2017).
  8. ↑ Alex Rössle: The Jewish Church at Tiefenbach and the Graf-Vojkffy-Weg. May 7, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 40.2 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 14.9 ″  E