Diepholz synagogue district
The Diepholz synagogue district with its seat in Diepholz in the Hanoverian Landdrostei Hanover (today the district town of the district of the same name in Lower Saxony ) was created in 1843 in accordance with Section 36 of the Hanoverian Law on the Legal Relationships of Jews of September 30, 1842.
The synagogue district was under the Land Rabbinate of Hanover . In the middle of the 19th century, the district included Diepholz and Barnstorf , Cornau and Drebber . Later the Jewish families from Goldenstedt and Heiligenloh were also included. After the kingdom was annexed as the Prussian province of Hanover in 1866, the Hanoverian land rabbinates (until 1938), which were missing in Old Prussia, and the synagogue districts continued to exist . The latter disappeared with the extermination of the Jews and their communities in the Shoah.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. No. 44: "Law on the legal relationships of the Jews." In: Collection of laws, ordinances and tenders for the Kingdom of Hanover, from the year 1842 , pp. 211-224 , here p. 217.