Synagogue (Liběšice)
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 29.3 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 20.4" E
The synagogue in Liběšice (German Liebeschitz ), a Czech parish in Okres Louny in northern Bohemia , was built in the 18th century.
The Jewish community had around 160 members around 1860, which corresponded to a third of the village population. In the following decades the community lost the majority of its parishioners as a result of emigration. Around 1930 there were only nine Jews left in Liběšice. The Jewish community in Liběšice was dissolved in 1931 and the community members came to the Jewish community of Saaz .
The secular synagogue of the dissolved Jewish community in Liběšice was sold to a farmer who used it as a stable.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 ( online edition ).
- Ernst Mändl and Heinrich Schwenger: History of the Jews in Saaz . In: Hugo Gold , The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present, Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brünn / Prague 1934, pp. 583-584 ( online ) at the Upper Austria Regional Library .
Web links
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