Brakel synagogue district

The Brakel synagogue district , based in Brakel , today a town in the Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia , was created according to the Prussian Jewish Law of 1847 .

In addition to Brakel, Erkeln and Riesel also belonged to the synagogue district founded in 1856/57 . At that time, the Jewish community of Brakel comprised 171 members, and in 1858 there were 16 Jews in Riesel. The number of Jews in Erkeln is given as 15 for 1843 and 12 for 1871. The synagogue community had been chaired by the farmer Naphtali Nordheim since 1854, and the statutes of 1856 were signed by W. Stern, L. Heineberg and S. Scheideberg as deputy heads.

Web links

On the history of the Jewish fellow citizens in Brakel (PDF), accessed on November 17, 2015

Individual evidence

^ Elfi splendor : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part III: Detmold administrative district (= contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 183 .
^ Herbert Engemann: Brakel . In: Historical Commission for Westphalia (Hrsg.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Westphalia and Lippe: The localities and territories in today's administrative district Detmold . Ardey, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-87023-283-2 , pp. 332, 334 .

[1] Elfi splendor : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part III: Detmold administrative district (= contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 183 .

[2] Herbert Engemann: Brakel . In: Historical Commission for Westphalia (Hrsg.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Westphalia and Lippe: The localities and territories in today's administrative district Detmold . Ardey, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-87023-283-2 , pp. 332, 334 .