Synagogue Choir Association Weinheim

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The Weinheim Synagogue Choir Association was founded in 1904 to provide musical accompaniment to the services in the New Synagogue in Weinheim ( Baden ).

history

The cantor and main teacher Marx Maier (1875–1932) was director of the synagogue choir, which appeared on August 2, 1906 at the inauguration of the New Synagogue. Synagogue choirs from Bruchsal , Heidelberg and Mannheim participated in a synagogue singing festival in Weinheim in May 1908 . Maier devoted himself extensively to maintaining synagogue singing. Between 1909 and 1914, the Weinheim synagogue choir was regarded as the “model choir of the Baden regional synagogue”. It consisted of a double quartet and was trained to sing unanimous synagogues. Maier suggested having his model choir perform in various parishes in the country and found the support of the Upper Council of the Israelites Bathing . In June 1910 the synagogue choir gave a performance for community singing in the Weinheim synagogue, to which synagogue councils and rabbis were invited. In the ordinance sheet of the upper council, the performance under Marx Maier was recommended as a model for imitation in other synagogues. In Karlsruhe in the same month a conference of the upper council for the "promotion of synagogue singing" with cantors from Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Pforzheim, Bretten, Heidelberg and Weinheim took place.

As a choir director and founder of the Chamber Music Association, Marx Maier shaped the musical events in Weinheim with a supraregional impact: musical greats frequented his house and he brought famous quartets to concerts in Weinheim.

At the inauguration of the synagogue in Gernsbach in 1928, the Weinheim Synagogue Choir took part under Cantor Marx Maier, and the daily press and Der Israelit reported. In 1930 the Ordinance Gazette of the Upper Council reported on a conference of religious teachers from all over Baden in Mannheim and Weinheim, at which the synagogue choir emerged as host with a two-hour musical performance from Sabbath and holiday liturgy under the conductor Cantor Marx Maier. In 1931 Maier was appointed honorary speaker for church chanting by the senior council of the Israelites of Baden .

The activities of the Synagogue Choir Association in Weinheim came to an end when the synagogue was blown up on November 10th during the November pogrom in 1938 . SA men had previously destroyed the interior of the synagogue with axes and pickaxes.

Choirmaster

  • from 1904: Cantor Marx Maier
  • 1924: Adolf Braun (the choir had 20 members)
  • 1932: K. Maier

literature

  • Franz Hundsnurscher, Gerhard Taddey : The Jewish communities in Baden. Monuments, history, fates . Ed .: Archive Directorate Stuttgart (=  publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg . Volume 19 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1968, p. 291 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinz Keller: Until his death he worked on Weinheim's reputation as a city of music. Principal teacher and cantor Marx Maier, founder of the Chamber Music Association, has made great contributions to the cultural life in Weinheim. Jewish traces in Weinheim. Accessed March 30, 2016 (first published in Weinheimer Nachrichten on August 4, 2006).
  2. ^ A b c Jürgen Schuhladen-Krämer: Find places in Weinheim in "Ordinance sheet of the Oberrat der Israeliten Baden" from 1896 to 1936. Jewish traces in Weinheim. Retrieved on March 30, 2016 (Ordinance sheets of the Oberrat der Israeliten Badens available in Badischer Landesbibliothek: OZB 306, 1931-1937.).
  3. ↑ a b Uwe Schellinger (Ed.): Memory made of stone: the synagogue in Kippenheim 1852–2002. Edited on behalf of the Friends of the Former Synagogue Kippenheim eV, Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-89735-195-1 , p. 132
  4. ↑ a b Heinz Keller: The man who sat Schiwe. Marx Maier, his daughter Ada and their beloved "Goi". Jewish traces in Weinheim. Retrieved on March 28, 2016 (first published in Weinheimer Nachrichten on December 29, 2007).
  5. ^ Hundsnurscher, Taddey: The Jewish communities in Baden. Monuments, history, fates . 1968, p. 291 .
  6. ↑ Irene Schneid-Horn: Jewish life in Gernsbach. A search for clues. , 2008, p. 11. Retrieved from Alemannia Judaica on April 12, 2016
  7. ↑ Miscellaneous . In: The Israelite . No. 31 . Frankfurt (Main) August 2, 1928, p. 7 ( Online [PDF; 12.4 MB ; accessed on April 13, 2016]).