Schmattgeld
As Schmattgeld ( schmadden , schmatten , abschmadden = to be baptized, late Yiddish formations are too originally Hebrew meschummad = apostate, which has been used since the Gaonean period at the latest ), before the legal emancipation of the Jewish population, flat-rate taxes were referred to, the Jewish residents formerly Christian Houses had to pay the local pastor to compensate for lost fees.
One example in Bavarian Swabia is the Ichenhausen Jewish community, documented accordingly in the Burgau recession of 1717. Another example is documented in the Catholic parish archive in Steppach (today Neusäß ).
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- Rural Judaism in the German southwest during the early modern period. Ed. by Rolf Kießling and Sabine Ullmann . Akademie Verlag Berlin, 1999. 400 pages. ISBN 978-3-05-003402-7 .
- "List of the 20 or 21 Israelites in Steppach, who have to pay the so-called Schmattgeld every year at Easter" (lists from March 29, 1853 and April 1, 1864). Steppach parish archive in the Augsburg diocese archive. Mentioned in: Documentation on the history and culture of the Jews in Swabia, I / l. Archive guide (Aichach-Augsburg). Edit v. Doris Pfister, ed. Peter Fassl, Swabia district. Augsburg 1993.